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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In page 5 of his presentation Professor Arulkumaran says that abortion is not associated with physical or mental health hazards but he only quotes the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Is the professor aware of distinguished research by Fergusson and others that says abortion is associated with adverse mental health sequelae, particularly in women who are young and vulnerable or where there is a history of mental illness?