Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion
Ms Orla O'Connor:
We certainly know from our members in Termination For Medical Reasons that this is a real cause for concern. This was certainly one of the issues that people believed would be solved by the referendum, and that people in that dreadful situation of fatal foetal anomaly would not be in a situation of having to travel and all the trauma that goes with that. This really is a critical one, irrespective of the numbers. I might ask Ms Ryan to go through the numbers given that this is affecting an important number of people. I cannot stress enough how important this is for those families and couples in that situation and just how difficult that 28-day rule has made things for them.
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