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 Jonathan O'BrienJonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is grand. I will ask the question anyway. There has been a lot of talk around equating the right to life of the mother to that of the unborn child. I think we sometimes get away from what is in the best interests of women's health. That is what the committee should be looking at in my opinion. If we were to start with what is in the best interests of women's health and women's health care, in Ms Hoctor's expert opinion would it be fair to say that standards of women's health care are better in countries where there is a more liberal regime in respect of terminations than in countries where there is a very restrictive regime? Would that be a fair assessment in Ms Hoctor's expert opinion?

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