Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin
1:40 pm
Rónán Mullen (Independent)
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I beg to differ on the appropriateness of the question. People will draw their own conclusions about Dr. Boylan's answer.
Professor Arulkumaran has written several scholarly articles on the injection of potassium chloride into the heart of an unborn at around 21 or 22 weeks as the most desirable method of terminating a pregnancy. Regardless of what method is used at that stage, does the professor agree that in that moment, a child is being killed?