Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE
1:30 pm
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I just want to establish that because there are all sorts of people coming in front of us and being put into categories they would be astonished to find themselves in. Ms Donlon said in her presentation many women experiencing a crisis pregnancy resolve that crisis for themselves. They must resolve that crisis for themselves because we are not in a situation where there is a legal abortion regime except in situations where the life of a woman is at risk. That is fair to say. What do the HSE's counterparts in countries where there is a legal arrangement do? Would the HSE's role be very different should the eighth amendment be amended? Has the programme given that any consideration?