Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Health Care Issues Arising from the Citizens' Assembly Recommendations: Masters of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street and the Rotunda Hospital
1:00 pm
Dr. Rhona Mahony:
It is so difficult to travel when one's pregnancy is complicated in a way that it is very unlikely one's baby is going to survive, or the baby is going to have a really severe challenge. It is really very difficult to have to go to a different country, to doctors in a hospital one does not know, to be away from one's family and to have that stigma of getting on the plane to access a termination of pregnancy, and to know that in one's own country it would actually be a criminal offence.