Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights

1:30 pm

Dr. Gilda Sedgh:

The Senator's question was whether stigma around abortion can prevent women from having access to abortion services even when the law is changed to expand the grounds for legal abortion. Do I understand the question correctly?