Results 4,041-4,060 of 7,643 for speaker:Rónán Mullen
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Ms Hoctor is probably aware that advocacy groups were not supposed to appear before the committee. While I do not know if she was aware of that, I will draw attention to an email from the Center for Reproductive Rights dated 28 September which reached my inbox-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I appreciate that. The joys of modern technology; let me see if we can have a quick recovery. The advertisement reads: Harsh abortion laws put women at risk and deny them their fundamental rights. We are fighting back [and then there are maps of five countries, Ireland, Kenya, India, El Salvador and Nepal and around the world]. We will not stop until every woman has access to safe and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I asked Ms Hoctor if she was surprised to receive an invitation from the Oireachtas?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Not withstanding the prohibition on advocacy groups.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Thank you Chairman. I thought we had done with the Chairman cutting in on people's questioning. That concludes my question and I thank the witness for her reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I will only take about half of that if that is okay. Is infanticide still criminalised in Britain and Northern Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Does Dr. Fletcher have a different view on whether infanticide should remain a criminal offence? It is clearly her view that abortion ought to be decriminalised. Does she take the same view of infanticide?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Does Dr. Fletcher think the unborn baby has any rights before birth?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Does Dr. Fletcher mean value only to the extent that another human being invests value in it? Is that her position?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I thank Dr. Fletcher. I was struck by her rationale when speaking about on-request abortion. I do not know whether this is her view but she appeared to cite the view with approval. It struck me that there was something Sir Humphrey-like about the idea that an on-request basis for abortion in some way offers some respect to the unborn because it might be argued in certain cases, but I do...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Would Dr. Fletcher accept that from the point of view that the unborn baby has rights as a human being, decriminalisation does not make sense?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I might say in passing by way of some kind of compliment that Dr. Fletcher is an example of an expert that has a very particular, definite view as opposed to being an advocacy group. Professor Fionnuala McAuliffe, the then head of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said in hearings here in 2013 that regardless of the legislation being discussed, she and her colleagues would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Provided it is medically safe to do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Does Dr. Fletcher accept that to speak of abortion care, as she does repeatedly, does not make sense if one is thinking also in terms of the unborn baby as an entity that deserves protection?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: But not for the baby?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: We have been doing it very successfully for years in this country, caring for both mothers and babies, as our medical history attests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: I thank Dr. McCarthy for his presentation. I will start by drawing his attention to his remarks regarding his not wanting to return to an era of illegal back street abortions and infanticide. Any reasonable person would shudder at the thought of living in such an era. Would Dr. McCarthy say that a scenario that is as horrific is that in modern Britain where there is an abortion rate which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: Is that a yes or no to the British scenario being somewhat horrific?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: When Dr. McCarthy speaks of them, is he thinking about two patients including the baby, irrespective of how welcome he or she might be then? Does he feel he has a duty of care to the baby?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)
Rónán Mullen: What about ethically? What is Dr. McCarthy's own outlook?