Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The current section 85(6) creates a specific standard that applies solely to pregnant directive-makers. The purpose of the removal of the subsection is to ensure that the current clinical practice applies to pregnant women.It is not being put forward as any sort of weakening of the protections towards a foetus but it allows for clinical policy, which is always more responsive to legislation, to be implemented by clinicians at a particular time. That is the direction we should be allowing. We should be allowing clinical policy to be implemented.