Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Termination Arising From Rape: Mr. Tom O'Malley, NUI Galway; Dublin Rape Crisis Centre; and Dr. Maeve Eogan, Rotunda Hospital

1:30 pm

Photo of James BrowneJames Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Would it be fair to say that if legislation were provided to allow for terminations in the event of unlawful intercourse resulting in a pregnancy, each of the five instances Mr. O'Malley has listed would have to be addressed?

Outside legal technicalities, many people might consider that the first three come under the generic term "rape". Is it the case that we would have to address all five?