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.