Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
International Developments in the Provision of Health Care Services in the Area of Termination of Pregnancies: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and World Health Organization
1:00 pm
Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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I just have two short questions for the representatives from the WHO. Is there any correlation between gestational limits and safe abortions? One of the difficulties we are faced with in terms of legislation based on the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly is that the assembly referred to "risk", "serious risk" and "real and substantial risk". Does the WHO have any definitions for "risk" and "serious risk"?