Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Science does not stand still. If the licensing period is ten weeks, we have got to future-proof to some degree, even if there is a doubt about that.

We are conflating issues. I had a motion, 27, stating termination of pregnancy should be lawful with no restriction as to reason, up to a gestational limit of 12 weeks. That was to capture quite a lot of factors. I had another amendment on circumstances where there is a surgical abortion rather than a medical one and on decriminalisation. Several factors can get rolled in together.