Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2024-06-20
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Rónán Mullen (IND), National University of Ireland

I have not touched on the issue of disability. This is something I might ask the Minister to assist me with. In the event that a child is the subject of a surrogacy contract or agreement and, in the course of the pregnancy, it emerges that the child has a disability, sadly in the world we now live in it is considered acceptable to end the life of that child where they have a disability in many jurisdictions, including our own, where the disability has a certain level of severity, is it only the surrogate who may seek to have a termination of pregnancy? Is the surrogacy agreement in any way allowed to provide for consultation or input by the commissioning parents into any decision in that regard?

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Sitting date: 2024-06-20