Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No, one can use ordinary measures. I am genuinely not saying that. I am sorry. I know it has been a long day for all of us in here. Perhaps I have not been clear enough. We are putting this in to make sure that a doctor has an extra protection. Let us be honest; doctors know what viability is. They make decisions on whether a foetus is viable. They know these things. This will involve two doctors, obstetricians, and they will be dealing with a consenting woman. People will get this. They will know this and these will be personal choices. We are providing doctors with extra protection so that they do not have to have at the back of their minds the concern that, in theory, if they did this, that or the other, that they could perhaps keep the baby alive for all intents and purposes but that the baby would not effectively be alive.