Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations
1:30 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Does he accept that a condition affecting the health of a pregnant woman needs to be dealt with? I refer, for example, to a woman whose previous medical history shows she has a tendency to have high blood pressure. What happens in a case where extending the pregnancy without any condition could cause the woman to contract sepsis, for example?