“Ireland is not giving the best reproductive healthcare and rights that it can to women. On his last visit to Dublin on Wednesday, October 18th – his “third or fourth time in Ireland” – Prof Arulkumaran spoke to the Oireachtas committee examining the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution. The amendment “played a major role” in the death of Savita Halappanavar, Prof Arulkumaran told the committee. When a woman goes for an abortion, Ireland treats her like a criminal. Here is a poor woman getting physical and psychological trauma for making a decision to go for a medical procedure,” Prof Arulkumaran said.

Source: The Irish Times May 21, 2018 19:07 UTC