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Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...essential. I just wanted to put my concerns and how they flowed from lived or personal experience on the record. Many of the people in question who are seeking the services of medical practitioners, including GPs in their local communities, are in extremisand at a particularly vulnerable point in their lives. This can be the case for many reasons. Healthcare is messy and not easy. In...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...activity includes the display of religious images and messaging, graphic images of foetuses and in some instances physical and verbal aggression. There have also been targeted protests outside GP surgeries. The detrimental impact of this behaviour cannot be overstated. [...] These anti-abortion protests, whether passive or active have a significant psychological impact and extend to...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Rónán Mullen: .... It is a profoundly unjust elective procedure. I am not talking about the necessary medical procedures that can result in the loss of an unborn child. I am talking about elective, voluntary abortion, which is now provided in GP surgeries and hospitals. If people do not see that as healthcare, are they entitled in a democracy to be on the street and in the vicinity of such places,...