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
Dr. Peter Boylan:
All of the international evidence is that in countries where there is a liberal law or where they change from a restrictive law to a more liberal law, the rate of termination falls. It must be tied in, however, with health education, contraceptive education, sexual health education and so on. It cannot really be looked at in isolation.