Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

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

9:00 am

Professor Deirdre Madden:

There is already a direct telling of falsehood. For a woman who has a child through donor insemination in this jurisdiction, her husband's name will be entered onto the birth certificate even though he is clearly not the father.