Eamon O’Dwyer: exclude abortion for suicide ideation from the proposed legislation

As a consultant obstetrician / gynaecologist, initially at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin and thereafter at University Hospital, Galway, with responsibility for almost 100,000 confinements, I did not encounter a single case of suicide. If, instead of strengthening the Medical Council Guidelines, we are to have legislation, I would urge that they exclude abortion for suicide ideation from the proposed legislation. (Times) >