Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I might say in passing by way of some kind of compliment that Dr. Fletcher is an example of an expert that has a very particular, definite view as opposed to being an advocacy group.

Professor Fionnuala McAuliffe, the then head of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said in hearings here in 2013 that regardless of the legislation being discussed, she and her colleagues would continue their existing practice of trying to get every pregnancy to a stage at which the baby would survive, if it were medically safe to do so. Dr. Rhona Mahony said at the time that obstetricians are not in the business of killing foetuses and so on. Is it not the case that Dr. Fletcher and others with whom she works within a legal group, through her activism and the production of draft legislation, are proposing a radical departure from any notion that there could ever be a reason for delaying an abortion?