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OPINION:A lobby group wants the statute of limitations to be temporarily lifted for survivors of what were covert, unnecessary and injurious operations A YOUNG, healthy woman expecting her second ...

After several days of labor Jane* was “put to sleep.” When she awoke, her son was born but she was a “different person.” She was “doubly incontinent and in extreme pain.” Some days later she left the ...

Madam, – Symphysiotomy is an 18th-century childbirth operation that effectively unhinges the pelvis by severing the pubic bones. The surgery was revived here in the mid-1940s for religious reasons and ...

WOMEN who survived the brutal procedure of symphysiotomy in childbirth are calling on government TDs to support their bid to change the law so they can seek compensation in the courts. They are asking ...

Symphysiotomy is a surgical procedure where cartilage of the ‘pubic symphysis’ is cut in order to widen the pelvis during childbirth. This procedure is rarely performed in developed countries now as ...

Manchester, United Kingdom – Over the course of the past few months we’ve been covering one of the most extraordinary and lesser known human rights abuses in Europe. It’s a medical procedure doctors I ...

SURVIVORS of horrific symphysiotomy operations have demanded more time to apply for a new redress scheme so they can be paid more than €50,000 in compensation. At an extraordinary general meeting of ...

Rita McCann still remembers the day when her joy at the prospect of giving birth to her first child turned into sheer terror. It was December 15th, 1957 when she went ...

Over the last century, 129 Irish women had their wombs removed unnecessarily and more than 1,500 women had their pelvises deliberately broken during childbirth Cathriona Molloy was given a needless ...

In the 20th century, symphysiotomy was practised only in Ireland. Doctors across Europe knew what a caesarean section was, but the wards were also staffed by Catholic nuns. It is widely suspected that ...