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 think it is unhelpful in the concept of things like microcephaly, which cannot be diagnosed at that point. It obviously depends on what Ireland as a country wants to achieve with regards to a percentage that will be detected and which abnormalities will be detected.