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:

Yes. I think the Deputy reads it correctly. That is why I would like the numbers to be better. I would like to be able to correlate the numbers and say, this is the level of prenatal diagnosis and this was the result. All we can do is say, as the graph shows, that we have seen an increase in late, second trimester abortions. The only assumption that we can make is that it might be due to the 20 week scan because that is when the anomalies are picked up. If it is a severe anomaly, parents will consider termination and we see that reflected in the numbers.

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