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:

Where access to legal abortion is more restricted, one will see more abortions being done later in pregnancy because of the delays in the person figuring out where to go, admitting that one needs to go somewhere and so on.