Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

What we want is, in a case whereby a woman's life or serious health is at risk and two obstetricians are deciding whether to perform a termination of pregnancy, for one of the tests to be based on whether the pregnancy is viable. What this legislation says, clearly and unambiguously, is that when it is being determined whether a pregnancy is viable, the test to be used is not the normal medical test. How a doctor thinks is, if one can have an early birth, if pregnancy can be induced and if everything needed can be done to keep the baby alive, then he or she will do that. This, however, does not say that. It says that when it is being decided whether a pregnancy is viable, viability is defined as not using any of the kit the doctor would normally use. That is what this says. That is what the law says.