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 Sjef Gevers:

I do not agree with this equation. We do not consider the unborn a person. While the unborn's life is entitled to some degree of protection, and more at a further stage of development, only after birth does he or she receive the full protection that a person receives. No such equation would be accepted.

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