Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion

1:30 pm

Ms Orla O'Connor:

To be clear on what the UN expert statement has said, which I think was submitted to members, was:

We recommend the good practice found in many countries which provide women’s access to safe abortion services, on request during the first trimester of pregnancy. We insist on international legal requirements that women can access abortion at the very least in cases of risk to their life or health, including mental health, rape, incest and fatal impairment of the foetus during the first trimester and later.