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

Dr. Caitriona Henchion:

I think trying to lay out specific grounds, specific risks, or specific categories of women who are somehow entitled to an abortion, while excluding others, will leave a great many women still in the same position they are in now, trying to travel for an abortion or accessing abortion online. If that is the problem we are addressing, then we will not address it if we make abortion subject to specific criteria.

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