Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association

1:30 pm

Mr. Niall Behan:

If I may add to that, we have had a small number of cases of pregnancies that became concealed pregnancies because the first experience of the young girl or the woman with a service was so negative that she did not present at any service subsequently until very late in the pregnancy. They move into that kind of concealed pregnancy and do not engage with maternity services. We have had a small number of such cases.

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