Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will be very clear because I do not want anyone thinking this in any devalues the woman's life because I would have thought we have come a long way from that with the referendum and the result the people gave us. If there is an immediate risk to the woman's health or life, the emergency provision is very clear in terms of many of the other procedures or processes being discarded. This is a situation where it is not deemed to be an emergency but there is deemed to be a serious risk or a situation involving a fatal foetal abnormality arises.