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 Peter FitzpatrickPeter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise to the Chair but there was an issue with the Finance Bill.

My question is for Dr. Sedgh. I know that in recent years she has severed her links officially with the International Planned Parenthood Federation, IPPF, but I think I am right in saying she has a long historical link with that group, which is one of the largest abortion providers in the world. I note that, in her presentation, she talks a lot of facts and figures but she does not talk about how many people have been saved by the eighth amendment. My question to her is this: does she think anyone has been saved by the eighth amendment?

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