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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, the people of Ireland did not at any point express a desire for a 14 year prison sentence for women who procured abortions or for those who provided such a service. The only possible justification there could be for the criminalisation of abortion is, as Deputy Clare Daly mentioned, the practice of back street abortions. That is the only justification. However, that is not a...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 117:In page 13, line 6, after “shall” to insert “forthwith”.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 107: In page 12, line 30, to delete "in good faith".

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are self-explanatory.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 81:In page 10, after line 39, to insert the following:“Fatal foetal abnormality10. (1) It shall be lawful to carry out a medical procedure in respect of a pregnant woman in accordance with this section in the course of which, or as a result of which, a pregnancy is ended, where--(a) the medical procedure is carried out by an obstetrician at an appropriate...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State referred to Deputy Kelleher's intervention, in which he pointed out that one was giving a right and taking it away. He and the Minister of State are absolutely right about that. The Minister, however, is possibly guilty of doing the same thing himself in the way that he has framed this legislation. We have already made the point about the obstacles being put in the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As an English graduate I know words are slippery.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a lawyer the Minister of State knows they are slippery. That is why the clarification is necessary. That is the point. If there was clarity we would not have needed the legislation in the first place. This provides that clarity and that is why that clarity was in the test.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do I have to move the amendment in my name?

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One aspect of the case of Savita Halappanavar was doubt and hesitation about at what point there was a risk to life. If this legislation has a purpose, it is to clarify the position and remove the doubt or anything that contributes to hesitation on the part of doctors to intervene decisively to save a woman's life as soon as there is a real and substantial risk to her life. Part of the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have several amendments in this grouping. There are many qualifications in the Bill which essentially embed mistrust in the clinical judgment and good faith of doctors. These are an unnecessary misplaced concession to those who are opposed to abortion in any circumstance in what should be a trust in doctors. To use a term the Minister used frequently on Committee State, these changes are...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, if the Ceann Comhairle reads amendment No. 84, he will see it refers to sexual abuse, risk to health-----

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and risk to well-being, and that is a fairly extraordinary intervention.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The amendment refers to a risk to a woman's health and well-being and pregnancy as a result of sexual abuse. We export that problem and that is deeply hypocritical. It is a reality for thousands of Irish women, and although we accept their right to travel abroad to seek terminations in those instances, we deny them the right to have them in this State. That is an hypocrisy which is...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If one puts those two observations together and if the Government was serious about addressing the denial to women of their rights to protect their health and well-being, it could at least put this forward as something to be considered, and it if it were struck down, as it probably would be, it could then give a commitment that a referendum would be held to deal with the matter. One of the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry - on a point of order-----

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to make a point of order.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to make a point of order.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, I do not know why the Ceann Comhairle is making that comment when I was speaking directly on this amendment.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past few days we have indicated that some of us believe the Bill will not even achieve its stated intention, which is to protect women whose lives are at risk because of a physical threat or the threat of suicide. In the latter case, suicidal women will not go near this process because it is so restrictive and intrusive in its interrogation of women in a vulnerable position. It...