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
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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There is the human rights element and there was much reference to human rights. There is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, for example, which makes a comment in that regard. The EU Charter on Fundamental Rights also makes a comment. Does Ms Hoctor wish to comment on either of these? If we are to be even-handed in our debate, we must ask about the human rights of the woman and those of the child.