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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Finally, something was said earlier about babies being left to die and that phrase has been used here before. References were also made to injections into the heart and so forth. Could Professor Arulkumaran clarify that he was referring to parents who are experiencing fatal foetal abnormality or some other situation where the prognosis is that life is not possible?