Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion

Ms Marie O'Shea:

That seems to be in line with the findings I found from this report and from the report prepared by Dr. Deirdre Duffy. The World Health Organization would support that view was well. The GPs I spoke to referred to it having a particularly punitive effect on people who were in inclusion medicine services in that they have a peripatetic and chaotic lifestyle, and arranging two appointments is quite difficult for them. They are, perhaps, in circumstances where they lose their telephones, so for those people-----

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