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

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1:30 pm

Ms Leah Hoctor:

As I said to Deputy Durkan, under international human rights law the right to life, as enshrined, for example, in the international covenant on civil and political rights, is a right that accrues from birth and does not apply to prenatal life.

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