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 Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is the human rights element and there was much reference to human rights. There is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, for example, which makes a comment in that regard. The EU Charter on Fundamental Rights also makes a comment. Does Ms Hoctor wish to comment on either of these? If we are to be even-handed in our debate, we must ask about the human rights of the woman and those of the child.

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