Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Ms Liz McDermott:

If the Senator is ideologically disposed to saying abortion is a good thing, then let us just open it up and have open season and just strip unborn children of their rights altogether. Women have abortions for all kinds of reasons and a lot of those women and girls who travel do not have supports. That is why they travel. It would not be any different if they were having the abortion here. They would still be in that predicament. Whether she travels down the road or across the sea, it is the act itself, what is being done. Focusing on the geography of where that happens is missing the point.