Results 3,641-3,660 of 7,648 for speaker:Rónán Mullen

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Dr. Boylan has been involved in supporting and drafting Labour Party legislation. He attended the launch that would bring in abortion. He also said that he has been involved in London and the United States. Has he ever been involved in the carrying out of an abortion outside of what one would call medical interventions? Up to what stage of pregnancy would it have taken place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I beg to differ on the appropriateness of the question. People will draw their own conclusions about Dr. Boylan's answer. Professor Arulkumaran has written several scholarly articles on the injection of potassium chloride into the heart of an unborn at around 21 or 22 weeks as the most desirable method of terminating a pregnancy. Regardless of what method is used at that stage, does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: In page 5 of his presentation Professor Arulkumaran says that abortion is not associated with physical or mental health hazards but he only quotes the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Is the professor aware of distinguished research by Fergusson and others that says abortion is associated with adverse mental health sequelae, particularly in women who are young and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Is the professor familiar with Fergusson's literature?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Dr. Boylan claims that the evidence suggests those countries that do not provide abortion tend to have falling or lower rates. The fact is, according to the best available-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I am sorry, I will go back to the document. Did I misquote the doctor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Yes, where abortion is legalised, in liberal regimes for want of a better word. Does Dr. Boylan not accept that Ireland, with one in 19 pregnancies ending in abortion, has just a fraction of the rate of abortions that have taken place in Britain where nearly 200,000 abortions take place each year? In some cases these are late-term abortions because there is no time limit for even relatively...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Does Dr. Boylan accept that the accessing of abortion pills is irrelevant in the sense that it is as much of an issue and a problem in abortion jurisdictions as it would be in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Does Dr. Boylan acknowledge a difference of opinion between him and Dr. Abigail Aiken, who he quoted last week and who seems to be at pains to stress the safety of abortion pills? Dr. Boylan has spoken about the relative danger of importing or using abortion pills.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Further to the question I asked earlier, if abortion was legal in Ireland would Dr. Boylan be willing to carry out abortions in the way they are carried out in Britain and at the various terms they are allowed there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Very briefly, I will ask Dr. Boylan the same question that I asked of Professor Arulkumaran. Is he aware of the Fergusson research around the mental health sequelae of abortion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Is Dr. Boylan across its detail?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I have a final question for Professor Arulkumaran. The professor evokes a situation where Ireland is dangerous, despite the fact that we have not had any criminal prosecution of doctors and despite the fact that we do not have a history of mothers losing their lives because of the lack of abortion in Ireland. The professor's own report into the Savita Halappanavar affair did not claim that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Has the professor commented on the problems?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: A botched abortion is a situation where a mother suffers adverse health, for example, in the case of an Irish woman who died in a taxi coming from a Marie Stopes clinic, or a situation where a baby is alive after the procedure and is left to die.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Professor Arulkumaran accepts that women have died as a result of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: That is what has happened-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I accept that, but can I make one final point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: It is not a question. This bears out my concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Yes, it is. I want to put on record that this further bears out my concern that there simply is not enough time available to examine carefully what witnesses are claiming, which makes this a really farcical process on a life or death issue. I want to put that on the public record.