Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital
1:30 pm
Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Mr. Thompson's talk focused a lot on how babies who have been diagnosed with a condition are often aborted at various stages. As he said, the babies can be aborted at quite a late stage in pregnancy if a condition like Down's syndrome is diagnosed. I am worried by the fact that we are living in a world where something like Down's syndrome is seen as something that could mean a baby's life could be ended.
Doctors are trained to save lives and support tiny babies who are seriously ill. Does Mr. Thompson think that ending the life of a baby because he or she is sick goes completely against such training?
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