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

Photo of Jonathan O'BrienJonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am somewhat hesitant to ask the next question but I need to know the answer to it. If legislation is brought in that allows terminations solely on the grounds of rape or incest and does not allow for freely available abortion in the first trimester but the issue of decriminalisation of abortion is not dealt with, could a woman who obtains a termination on rape grounds be liable to be judged to have committed a criminal offence if, at a subsequent criminal trial, the alleged rapist is found not guilty on the basis of insufficient evidence?

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