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

If the witness were my doctor and I were pregnant and she wanted me to have a caesarean section but I wanted a natural delivery, could she, as my doctor, tell me she believed I might be jeopardising the baby's life and, therefore, compel me to have a caesarean section?

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