{"id":8461,"date":"2018-04-06T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8461"},"modified":"2018-07-03T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T21:07:40","slug":"medical-myths-about-eighth-amendment-must-be-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8461","title":{"rendered":"Medical myths about Eighth Amendment must be challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"
Campaign of fear and misinformation has been deployed to tarnish reputation of Irish medicine<\/h6>\n

Irish Times<\/em><\/p>\n

Eamon McGuinness<\/p>\n

The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the equal right to life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate that right.’<\/em><\/p>\n

Those words were inserted into our Constitution by the Irish people in 1983. As a consultant obstetrician, and later as chairman of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, I served Irish women and their children under the auspices of the Eighth Amendment.<\/p>\n

It should be a matter of some national pride that Ireland, in that time, has been one of the safest places on earth to be a pregnant woman, and one of the safest places in the world to be an unborn child.<\/p>\n

In recent times, a sustained campaign has been waged by some people, including several of my colleagues in obstetrics and gynaecology, to suggest that the words at the beginning of this article put women’s lives at risk.<\/p>\n

If that were true, I myself would be leading the charge to have them expunged from the Constitution. A constitutional restriction on my ability, or the ability of any of my colleagues, to save the life of a pregnant woman would indeed be intolerable. Let me therefore be clear: no such restriction exists.<\/p>\n

The Eighth Amendment has one medical effect only: it prevents Irish doctors from deliberately, as an elective matter, causing the death of an unborn child. It awards to the child in the womb the right to have their life protected in Irish hospitals, in Irish GP surgeries, and in Irish operating theatres.<\/p>\n

That right does not restrict doctors from acting to save the life of a woman where a serious complication arises. . . . [Full text<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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