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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I remind the Ministers that the dilemma for the doctors, the psychiatrists and the obstetricians was the repugnant one posed by the fact that if a mother refuses treatments, the law says that a medical procedure is lawful. Jim Sheehan, who founded the Blackrock Clinic, the Hermitage and Galway Clinic, said, "Peter, you are to use the words 'kill the baby' ". We have heard an awful lot about...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: This touches on all sections and all the amendments without exception. We must get this right. We are not obliged to legislate for the Constitution. That was well put. Deputy Timmins rightly said that we would be all fools to ignore the reality of what psychiatrists tell us and that they said they are being put into a naturally repugnant dilemma whereby if a woman is distressed, and my...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: This is an excerpt from the chapter about frames and reality in Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel prize-winning behavioural psychologist, economist and philosopher who has written perhaps this year's bestselling book. His reputation in the area is world class and is a hallmark. He and his colleague, Amos, carried out an experiment with colleagues at Harvard Medical School....

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: It is some ten and a half hours since I made a short contribution on these proposals. I preface my comments tonight by reminding everyone - in which I include myself - that life is an extraordinary gift and that mothers and babies are extraordinarily valuable human beings. The Constitution recognises that in Article 40.3.3°. The problem, if it is a problem, is to interpret that...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Peter Mathews: The psychiatrists said that if a woman is in a very distressed situation, and anxious, which is very understandable, and says that she does not wish to accept the medical treatment they may offer, the only way left to avert the risk of suicide is to certify this as a lawful procedure. That goes against the hippocratic oath. They explained that dilemma to us. Furthermore, when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Peter Mathews: I thank the four professional consultants for their presentations. I feel I learned much more in this session than in the earlier one on the actual delivery of the safe care for mothers and their babies. I got a much better sense of conversation and real meaning about the whole issue. We are here to discuss the heads of the Bill. That derives from the difficulty that there is in applying...

Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (Resumed) (17 Dec 2012)

Peter Mathews: The debate is resuming from one week ago. I came to the Chamber and listened to most of the contributions. It is important we get this right as a people and as a society. Sometimes, events can occur that give a disproportionate sense of emergency about something that requires reflective consideration. Our Constitution holds the life of all citizens, from the start of life, in equal value...