Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Instead of the doctor's count of six miscarriages, what if she actually had seven? What are we talking about? The doctor will then potentially end up entering into a Kafkaesque nightmare of being technically in breach of the law. The amendment refers to ectopic pregnancies. Any doctor talking to a woman who is pregnant will go through her medical history in a respectful way - but numbers, dates, times? Do the Deputies want to know how much blood the woman lost when she had each miscarriage?

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