Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Dr. John Kennedy:

We hear this a lot, namely, that what we are doing is inherently unnatural, but so is penicillin and so is cancer treatment and stenting somebody's coronary arteries to prevent another heart attack. As has been alluded to, infertility is a medical condition so we are providing medical care for a known medical condition. There are underlying conditions which support it, enable it and make it worse but that is what we are doing. We are treating not elective physicians.