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

Dr. Peter Boylan:

One has to come back to belief systems. People who are comfortable in their belief systems that the termination of pregnancy is an acceptable route to go are firmly of the belief that there is not a problem with ending a life in the womb, as the Deputy described it.