Seanad debates

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of Averil PowerAveril Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to respond to the clarification that my Seanad colleague has just given. He said he has sympathy with those using the assisted procedure on the grounds of infertility. Perhaps he might clarify further. I think it is clear from the pretext. He said he would reserve the word "commodification" for others. By that he means he has no difficulty in terms of heterosexual couples who cannot have children because of infertility but he has said that others he would regard as commodification. He is fine with DAHR - at least he is more sympathetic to it - provided it is heterosexual couples, but his difficulty is with same-sex couples using it. I think that is more to do with prejudice than anything to do with concerns for child welfare.

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