Dáil debates

Thursday, 11 July 2013

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed)

 

6:15 am

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Deputies Creed and Kelleher said that if we put a time limit on this we are saying to women that they have reached the point of no return with regard to treatment. That would be true if one erased all the medical evidence we heard at the oral hearings of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, where witnesses said there is psychiatric treatment, based on medical fact, that would treat individuals in this situation, that the treatment covered in the legislation will do more harm than good and that the prediction accuracy is at 3%.

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