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 Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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It is one last question. Evidence has been suggested that where abortion is readily and legally available in a country, the number of abortions decline. What is the basis for that conclusion? Different regimes apply in different countries. Germany has fairly strict regulation of termination of pregnancy. As medical practitioners, are the witnesses aware of the system in Germany as opposed to the UK system?