Geraldine Kenny: ‘valuable debate complete with medical facts, figures’

The hearings were particularly valuable because the medical representatives provided facts and figures about terminations of pregnancy in Irish maternity hospitals for the first time. There was no dispute about them. Dr Sam Coulter Smith, master of the Rotunda, said six terminations had taken place in his hospital last year. Dr Rhona Mahony, master of the National Maternity Hospital Holles Street, stated that three had taken place there. And pressed to speculate on the number nationally, they deduced that it could be as low as 10 or as high as 30. (Times) >