Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital

1:30 pm

Mr. Tom O'Malley:

I am trying to be as open as possible about it, in that I was asked to address the legal issues. I am trying to consider the legal issues that would arise, which would be very few, if abortion was available freely up to the first three months or whatever it might be.

All I am saying is that if one took the opposite approach of restricting abortion under certain grounds, then one would have to deal with those real questions that we have been addressing. I am not recommending which one should be achieved but it is quite clear that one would avoid those problems in the event that abortion was freely available for the first three months or whatever the period may be. I am not sufficiently familiar with the abortion policy issue.

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