Seanad debates

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage

 

6:45 pm

Photo of Ivana BacikIvana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That was the issue. It was not a case about treatment or about mental illness. It was a case about a young girl who was suicidal as a result of a crisis pregnancy and for whom abortion was a necessary option in order to avert the real and substantial risk that she would end her life.

I wish, like Senator Crown, that we could legislate for cases of rape and fatal foetal abnormality-----

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