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:
I would wait to see the legislation in Ireland. I believe that the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly are interesting. When one takes a group of 100 people, puts them together and educates them about the realities of abortion from all sides of the coin, the group comes up with the recommendations such as the Citizens' Assembly came up with. I would wait to see-----