Ms Leah Hoctor:

Those terms are used by clinicians and physicians and are common in medical practice. The committee on the rights of disabilities did not state that women should not be allowed to access services when they receive a diagnosis of fatal foetal impairment - it simply raised the question of how the law does that and how the law should enable women to make decisions in the course of a pregnancy with a fatal foetal impairment. It also discussed whether or not the law should include an explicit term around foetal impairment.