Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee
2:00 pm
Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
On a point of clarification, I do accept that Deputy Fitzpatrick does not interrupt people at the committee. However, there is no heartbeat at three weeks. Obviously, from the moment the sperm and the egg fuse the genetic material is there for all of us to have existed, but there is no heartbeat. At seven weeks there is a pulsating tube, from the evidence I have read. It is unfair to suggest that occurs at three weeks.
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