Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street
1:30 pm
Dr. Anthony McCarthy:
How could it be a good thing? I see women who come back afterwards as well, and they have a level of distress. The committee has heard the stories and I do not need to repeat them. How could any human being react listening to women describing taking the boat rather than the plane and bringing the foetus in a bag? I will sometimes have seen them before the termination. They will show love for the foetus and have a photograph of it. It is a baby they loved but this was the only way for them to deal with the matter. They are hurt, outraged or upset that they had to go to the UK.
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