Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital
1:30 pm
Mr. Peter Thompson:
Yes. It allows a degree of flexibility. We are professionals and professionals in other disciplines make decisions with patients about resuscitation and non-resuscitation that could be argued about by other clinicians who would think that, perhaps, they had come to the wrong decision. It is not obstetricians alone who make these difficult decisions. I believe a degree of flexibility is required.