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

Ms Leah Hoctor:

Most European laws we looked at, and we looked at 40 countries in some detail, would have a general provision on health. In almost all cases mental health would either be explicitly listed there, together with physical health, or else implicitly interpreted into the ground.