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:

It is almost 100%. Very few people decline it, although many people attend with the impression that the scan is for the purpose of seeing the baby. They are told beforehand that the purpose of the scan is to check on the baby's growth and the fluid around it and to see if the baby has any structural differences. It is difficult to know whether everybody understands that.