Ms Rachel Woods:

I do not really have a lot to add on this. The Senator's questions are very big and the Constitution is not the place to find clear answers to them. The focus on the right to life is quite specifically related to the life–death dichotomy rather than to all the nuance. Virtually none of the rights in the Constitution are absolute and there is space for the Legislature to add to them and determine what exceptions, if any, should exist and where there should be a balance with other values in the Constitution. Regarding the right to life, the Fleming decision showed there is space for the Legislature to take into account other values and balance them, as it sees fit, with the appropriate safeguards.