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

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1:40 pm

Dr. Peter Boylan:

I do not think the Constitution is the place to regulate medical practice. It is too rigid and as we have seen with the eighth amendment, it creates endless problems. Legislation and regulation following that legislation is the way to deal with it.

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