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

Ms Emma O'Friel:

I also wish to correct the part about desperation. I did not intend to say people would abduct children. It was just an effort to explain the desperation. If it is not desperation, I do not know what the word is. There is something that leads to problems about not being able to have a child but procuring somebody else's child. If I am not fertile and a woman beside me gives me her egg, that is her child. From the child's point of view, that does not change.