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 Alana Ryan:
One of our recommendations in the abortion working group submission is that it should be an opt-in to conscience-based refusal. You should be making a conscious decision that you are not going to provide essential reproductive healthcare and that should be clearly stated and monitored, rather than the current position where you seem to have a tacit failure to provide it, perhaps for a variety of reasons, but the status quois not-----
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