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

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Is Mr. Thompson saying that, in his clinical experience, it would be pointless to have a cut-off period of 12 weeks' gestation for foetal abnormalities in view of the fact they cannot be diagnosed definitively until at least up until 22 or 24 weeks?