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 Eva Pajkrt:

We do not. The problem is that it is all aggregated data. I am trying to convince them to compile the numbers differently so we could actually correlate. For instance, if an abortion was because of a prenatal diagnosis, we would like to know more around the abortion so that we would know a little bit more about what is going on. The only thing we can do at the moment is make assumptions. If there were around 35 women from Ireland out of some 30,000, I do not know where they are in those figures.

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