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:
The report actually says that we can only assume that the prenatal diagnosis was not made in those first 44 days, so thus the number of pregnancies is 74.6%. I do not think that is the correct way of looking at things because I work out there and I know how long it takes to make a prenatal diagnosis. Before one actually gets a diagnosis, one is possibly 12 weeks but most likely, 13 weeks. I think, therefore, that those terminations are all late terminations.
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