Seanad debates

Tuesday, 11 December 2018

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

10:30 am

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Very successfully. You know all about how, as part of the rights we all now enjoy as consumers or people who enter into a contract, we are entitled to a certain cooling-off period. Let us say a woman is not aware of the fact that with regard to certain abortion-inducing drugs, should she change her mind that process is reversible. Would the Minister think it would be okay that a woman would not be informed of the possibility should she change her mind of reversing the process but that time may be of the essence? That is the kind of information we are talking about when we refer to informing consent. If the Minister is opposing this amendment it would mean he does not want to help people who might want to change their mind. To use a reference he used in the past, opposing this amendment would mean he would rather that people were scrambling around on the Internet looking for information that should be made available to them as part of this process.

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