Aja Teehan and her husband Charles Brand top, outside the High Court following the judgment found against her application to have a home birth with a midwife contracted to the HSE.
Ms Teehan, who previously had a caesarean section, was told
the HSE does allow home births under the terms of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between themselves and independent midwives who to carry out home births. Under those terms, the HSE has agreed to indemnify independent midwives under terms which exclude potentially risky births include vaginal birth after Caesarean section (Vbac) which Ms Teehan wants to have.
…Changing the criteria for women who want to have such births would be a “clinical decision, based on assessment of the risks involved which the court is not entitled to make”
Woman Loses Legal Challenge To Home Birth Ruling (Irish Times)
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