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

I believe in choice. I understand where Ms McDermott is coming from in that she made her choice and continued with her pregnancy and now has her son, John, who brings her great joy. I continued on my journey. Does Ms McDermott believe we should be compassionate to the people who might not be in as fortunate a situation as she and I were? Where a woman of 52 years of age finds herself pregnant with her fifth child and her husband has a problem with alcohol and her youngest child is in university, the situation is completely different. Would Ms McDermott agree that there is a spectrum of situations such that what might suit her or me would not suit everybody?