Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights

1:30 pm

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have a question for Ms Hoctor. With regard to the Amanda Mellet and Siobhan Whelan cases, she said in her presentation that the Human Rights Committee's judgment detailed remedies which included reform of Irish abortion law and, if necessary, the Constitution. In her analysis of the judgment does she consider that it would entail changing the Constitution? In other words, within the current constitutional restrictions is it possible to implement the decision?

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