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
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I attended a meeting of the committee and one of the women present had had a fatal foetal diagnosis but her child is now aged 11 and was with us. The committee made a statement on this quite recently, though the presentation was made in 2015. Two weeks ago, a UN committee also stated that "fatal" and "incompatible with life" were terms that should not be used.
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