Ms Leah Hoctor:

On the question of social inequality, it was something to which the UN Human Rights Committee pointed in its decision in the Amanda Mellet case as one of its considerations in what it termed the Irish law's failure to take account of her socioeconomic circumstances and the difficulties she would have faced in travelling to another country to access services there. It was a component part of the cruel and inhuman treatment the committee found she had suffered. It was also a component part of the finding of the committee of inequality before the law that she faced discrimination because of her socioeconomic status.

I refer the committee - I do not have the exact page number - to the World Health Organization's guidelines on safe and legal abortion. The WHO also specifies very clearly that one of the results of restrictive abortion laws is the creation of social inequalities.