Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We invited the witnesses here to give their professional opinions. Do our general practitioner witnesses and those representing the Irish College of General Practitioners believe it fair to say that the three-day waiting period could be dealt with through guidelines or left to the discretion of doctors depending on the individual circumstances of each case and that to impose legislative constraints may have negative and unintended consequences?

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