Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion
Ms Caitriona Mason:
We are aware of this issue and working on it. This point arose. The Chair is looking at exemption No. 3 under head 5. The intention here from a policy perspective is that this would exempt the imparting of clinical or medical advice and not ideological advice. If there is a medical reason someone cannot have a termination, then that would not be excluded. It is clinical and medical information and advice that we are attempting to exclude in that instance.
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