Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

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

9:00 am

Dr. Joanna Rose:

I feel as though there is a priority to address infertility, which is a form of unhappiness, implicit in this room. As that is the inability to produce one's own genetic child, washed sperm, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, ICSI, and all these different State-funded mechanisms are provided to help people to have their own genetic child but there is no prioritising of that child to have or know his or her genetic parent. I do not understand why one generation's happiness is seen as so important in this context while the other one's genetic continuity and happiness is expendable. That seems like double standards.

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