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 Ruth CoppingerRuth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity)
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My last question is on late-term abortions which have come up a lot at this committee. Indeed, they have come up a lot in Ireland generally, with images being used by anti-abortion groups. How frequent are these post-23 week abortions? What percentage of the overall abortion rate do they represent and for what reasons would they be carried out at that very late stage?