Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service

1:30 pm

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What recourse does the patient have? There is a purpose to my questions. I am trying to tease out where we are going as a committee, rather than being difficult. Where one doctor takes the view that a combination of conditions will be fatal and a second doctor disagrees with that, what happens? In other words, what happens when there is a difference in medical opinion?

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