Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street
1:30 pm
Dr. Anthony McCarthy:
It is not my responsibility to deal with that. When I see a dead woman, when I read a file of 750 pages that begins with the day she became pregnant, and maybe she wanted to be pregnant, and I know that on the second last page I will read the post mortem report for her, that is what informs my way of thinking about these things.