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

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is important because I think the Dutch model, which is striking, is based on the idea of careful decision making, which is timely in light of what we discussed here yesterday. I was struck by the point that everybody's circumstances are different. The witnesses identified, which supports this as being a really good model, the importance of having non-specific language. How does one include in a law all the myriad different, sometimes conflicting or competing reasons? Is that something the witnesses would recommend to us? Have they found great benefit from having that non-specific language?

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