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Medical experts to address Oireachtas abortion hearings
Dr Rhona Mahony from the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street and Dr Sam Coulter Smyth of the Rotunda Hospital will give their opinion on the heads of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy...
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Ruth Foley on suicidality in abortion legislation
If the Bill is passed, and some doctors authorise terminations for women whose risk of suicide could have been managed by other treatments, how would anyone know about it? How would these doctors be...
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Obstetricians clash over suicide grounds fears
There may never be an abortion carried out in Ireland on the grounds that a woman is suicidal because she is likely to travel to England in such circumstances, according to the Master of the National...
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Abortion Bill risks normalising suicide, says leading psychiatrist
Prof Kevin Malone, professor of psychiatry in UCD and co-founder of the charity Turn the Tide of Suicide, had earlier in the day launched a major report on suicide among Irish males. By highlighting...
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Psychiatrists are being asked to be judges in assessing suicide risk,...
Consultant perinatal psychiatrist Dr John Sheehan told TDs and Senators that “psychiatrists are doctors not judges”. He said that under section 4 of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill,...
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Eamon O’Dwyer: exclude abortion for suicide ideation from the proposed...
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...
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Doctors for Life Ireland letter to Irish Times
We would like to make a clear statement to the members of the Oireachtas that there is no evidence that termination is the treatment for threatened suicide in pregnancy and that if they vote for the...
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Termination was denied at first because clinicians believed their ‘hands were...
Savita Halappanavar and her husband were told by clinical staff that a termination of her pregnancy was not possible because “their hands were tied” by Irish law, according to a Health Service...
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Peadar O’Grady: Oireachtas should amend Bill’s criminalisation of women and...
The Bill published confirms the criminalisation of women and doctors in section 22 and does not include fatal foetal abnormalities. However, there is now an opportunity for the Oireachtas to amend the...
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Michael O’Reilly: Psychiatrists cannot always detect feigned suicidal intention
Put simply, in an area of uncertainty such as risk, with all options being equal, doctors will often go for the option that is safest medico-legally. This will favour the mother over the unborn...
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Bitter feud among psychiatrists over submissions to Oireachtas committee
The College of Psychiatrists, which represents the doctors, has been called on to convene an emergency general meeting to discuss its submission to the Oireachtas committee hearings on abortion during...
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Brendan Kelly: Psychiatry cannot provide neat solutions on suicide
In the 1800s and early 1900s, Irish asylums were used as convenient solutions to all kinds of social problems. Asylum doctors were complicit in this, along with families and broader society. In...
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Obstetricians criticise Walsh abortion speech
Obstetricians have intervened in the row over Fianna Fail Senator Jim Walsh’s graphic description of abortion procedures in the Seanad this week. The Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said...
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Priest on Mater board says hospital cannot carry out abortions
The Mater hospital in Dublin “cannot comply” with the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act and cannot carry out abortions, a member of its board of governors has said. Fr Kevin Doran was speaking to...
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Hospitals have no right to opt out of abortion law, priest told
The Department of Health was responding to a statement by Fr Kevin Doran, a member of the board of the Dublin hospital, that abortion would be in conflict with its Catholic ethos. Fr Doran intends to...
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Irish Examiner editorial: Hospital abortion row – 210 million reasons to...
Surely no hospital worthy of the name could, on the basis of religious ethos, ever justify turning its back on a pregnant woman with medical complications that could put her life at risk. (Examiner)...
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Emer O’Kelly: Hospitals’ Catholic ethos means pregnant women are still at risk
THE provision in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill that no institution would be permitted to opt out of providing medical termination of a pregnancy in the case of grave danger to the life...
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Hospitals ‘not yet obliged’ to report number of abortions
HOSPITALS are not yet obliged to report terminations of pregnancy to save the life of a woman because new abortion legislation is still not in operation. The Department of Health said yesterday that...
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Irish Times editor under pressure to explain article on abortion
THE editor of ‘The Irish Times’ has been called on to explain how the newspaper published an account of an abortion which the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin says did not happen. Editor Kevin...
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Mater hospital to comply with legislation
The Mater Hospital in Dublin has said it will comply with the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. In a brief statement issued yesterday the hospital said it would comply with the Act, which...
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