Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam
2:00 pm
Professor Sjef Gevers:
-----should not be taken lightly and should be taken with due care and after a due process of consideration.
The professor is talking about ending a life. He is really saying that it is an entirely subjective test. As long as the person insists that it is an emergency surely there is no reality to the doctors' duty of care to the unborn if all that is asked of the woman is "please make sure that you have made up your mind". She is not even offered sight of a scan.
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