Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane

1:30 pm

Professor Veronica O'Keane:

It is evident in the way that my psychiatrist colleagues have responded to the legislation. Doctors are not immune from discrimination or from feeling the stigma that abortion care brings with it in a country like this, where there is a constitutional ban.