Dr. Anne Doherty:

I think that is the real nub of all of this. It is around autonomy. Again, I do not claim to be an expert in ethics but if we could confine it to that group I think there would be very few people who would be against it. The reality though is it is about the impact that it has on the other people who may very well need treatment but who are not able to access it at the moment. They are the people I am worried about. In principle, for a group of competent people, I do not think anybody is going to go to war over that; it is really more about the impact that it has on the rest of society.