Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Deirdre Duffy:
On gathering data and the value of data, there is complexity here. Trying to interpret the exact reason a person made a decision to continue with a pregnancy is very difficult and may involve retraumatising a person about a very vulnerable time in her life. An ethics committee - I sat on an ethics committee in a health research department for many years - would not approve that study.
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