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:

I do believe in the system that is present in the UK at the moment. Whether the Republic chooses to move down the road to a different system I acknowledge is its position completely and not for me to decide on in way, shape or form. However, I am happy to come here and discuss what the English experience is of working under a set of laws where the termination of pregnancy is available to women for babies with a significant abnormality.