Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2024-06-20
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Mary Seery Kearney (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

I am staying to the amendments. There has been an issue cast over people who may go to domestic surrogacy and a characterisation of anybody at international. These are the people who Senator Mullen is courting. On another day, he would not have anything to do with them. They just suit his twisted argument now in characterising everybody in a particular way. The two women who shared on that webinar are being exploited for this very argument of anti-surrogacy. They are being exploited. They should be supported and cared for. In the case of the surrogate, she should never have been a surrogate. In addition, she was a traditional surrogate, not a gestational one, as we are putting in a framework for - not all those things.
I am sorry. I know the Cathaoirleach thinks I am going off but I am not. This is a record of this House for eternity and there are children who will read this as adults, so it is necessary that we address back the appalling besmirching of our families, our surrogates and this stigmatising of our children. It is really important that that happens.

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Sitting date: 2024-06-20