Consultants seek ‘input’ in legal framework
IOG chairman Robert Harrison said obstetricians and gynaecologists should be given such a role, as they were the medical professionals who would most directly be affected by legislation.
The IOG told the Oireachtas Health Committee it was aware of cases where pregnant women had been referred to Britain for abortion where there had been a risk, but not immediate one, to their lives due to legal uncertainties.
