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

Professor Fergal Malone:

I will give the Deputy an example of when we might not do so. This would be when there was an intrauterine demise in the setting of a twin pregnancy. If there is another live foetus there, clearly, we do not want to endanger that foetus by delivering it early so that is why I cannot give the Deputy an "always" on that.