Professor Eva Pajkrt:

Actually, it is embedded within the criminal law to protect the women. If there are doctors out there who were doing stuff that is illegal or not within the medical ethical framework, we can actually deal with those doctors. It is not within the criminal arena for the woman but it is for the doctor. It is a completely different way of doing it. We doctors do it in a nice and licensed way. It is not to criminalise the woman but more to protect the woman from potential-----