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:
I fully respect the Deputy's viewpoint but the point is that if Ireland did not have access to termination of pregnancy in the UK, as we do, the maternal mortality rate would be very high. The only thing that keeps us having a low mortality rate is ease of access to termination of pregnancy in the UK. That, unfortunately, is a reality.