Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee

2:00 pm

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I see it in a different way entirely. I see it in a way where we are recommending a range of changes. What are the scenarios where one makes that legal and how does one protect both women and doctors, mainly from somebody, for instance, who has been struck off the medical register, setting up and being in an unregulated environment that becomes a risk to the woman? It is the kind of thing that the medical profession would rightly frown on. It is actually turning it around a little bit. It is saying these are the settings in which terminations can legally occur.

There probably is one other thing, and motion 36 captures it to some degree. One cannot have somebody guilty either. I was not trying to capture everything. I was putting in some motions about my thinking but there would have been other ones I supported as well.