Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

With regard to regulation and ethical and clinical oversight, for example, if a woman cannot conceive naturally because of underlying health reasons but then becomes pregnant it could have a profound impact on her health, how would the witnesses regulate in that instance? Would they simply depend on the ethical obligations on the clinicians? If such a woman becomes pregnant it could have a profound impact on her health and where would the line be drawn in that instance in terms of-----

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