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

Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran:

If it has a guaranteed, no-survival chance because of malformation then we leave it but if it is a normal baby, as Dr. Boylan said, at 23 weeks we make every effort to give all of the support needed.

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