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
Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Grand. We will check the Official Report.
I think it was Deputy Rabbitte who asked about illegal abortions and Dr. Henchion spoke about online pills. Have we any evidence that illegal surgical abortions are taking place in Ireland? My mother tells me that back-street surgical abortions were available here in the 1970s.. Has Dr. Henchion come across evidence of this? I do not believe it has come up at the committee to date. Have we any evidence that the coat hanger tricks are going on in the back streets in Ireland in this day and age?
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