Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly

1:30 pm

Ms Sharon Finegan:

There were more. There were six women, three who had continued with their pregnancy and three who had not. All six believed that the eighth amendment had an added impact on their decision-making. For example, there was a woman who had a crisis pregnancy, continued with her pregnancy and told her story to the assembly about the positive impact her child had had on her life and how she was thankful to the law in Ireland for that reason. There were other examples among those women who presented, so the answer is "Yes".