The Church of Ireland affirms the right to life as a fundamental ethical value from which all other values derive and therefore places value on the right to life of an unborn child and of the mother. However, the church also believes that in circumstances of "strict and undeniable medical necessity", the care that medical professionals need to give to the mother may result in the termination of her pregnancy. In cases of "lethal foetal abnormality", a church committee responding to a consultation on abortion has objected to feticide as a form of termination but accepted an option of expediting birth and providing perinatal palliative care and support, i.e. when the child is viable outside the womb. In keeping with its position on the value of life, the response affirmed that the circumstances of the conception do not alter the value of the child's life. Alongside this, it contended that it is self-evident that ongoing support for victims of sexual crime must be "readily available and of the highest standards".