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

Generally speaking, however, the issue of whether contraception is freely and easily available is obviously a very significant one. One of our previous sessions here indicated that because Irish women who travel to Britain for abortions do not get the follow-on counselling, they do not always get information on contraception either. Would that be the case in general?

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