Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Select Committee on Health
Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed)
1:30 pm
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
We are being asked to address the amendment. The amendment is mandatory and forces women because it tells them they will have no access to termination of pregnancy unless we sit them through all of this, unless we tell them things the pharmacist in the room tells us are medically dangerous and unless websites have a weekly security protocol attached to them. That is what this amendment provides. I believe some of the proposers are putting it forward in good faith. However, for what it is worth, it is also my view that others who are putting it forward have enough experience in this House to know-----
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