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

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent)
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A botched abortion is a situation where a mother suffers adverse health, for example, in the case of an Irish woman who died in a taxi coming from a Marie Stopes clinic, or a situation where a baby is alive after the procedure and is left to die.