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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

...be put in place to deliver the care they need. There are also people who, having taken mifepristone earlier in the pregnancy, have had a failed termination of pregnancy. It is a teratogenic drug; I think there are 35 known limb defects that are associated with teratogenic medication. They may present either towards the very end or after that 12-week period. There is a question as to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Ms Marie O'Shea: The predominantly method of abortion in Ireland under all sections of the Act is a medical abortion, where a person is given mifepristone, a hormonal drug which actively terminates the pregnancy, followed by misoprostol, which is a drug to eliminate the products of pregnancy. The Act stipulates in lines 10 and 11 that a termination has to be carried out by an obstetrician....

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