Talk about a diversionary statement. The issue is not the number of these barbaric procedures carried out as a percentage of overall deliveries, the issue is whether or not, in each instance of the procedure being carried out, whether it was performed as a procedure of last resort, as intended, or whether it was carried out due to the religious beliefs of the consultants involved in the birth.

“A draft government report into the practice said that the laws of the Catholic Church played a large role in the continued use of symphysiotomies in Ireland long after they were discontinued in other countries” WHY? Why were the ‘laws’ of the catholic church being used on women giving birth in Irish hospitals right up to 1985? Why was the government of the state allowing such unnecessary draconian and harmful procedures to be used in Irish hospitals? Once again we have the dark spectre of the catholic church hanging over yet another group of victims, another group of sufferers yet again failed by the state, the state turned a blind eye to the religious run hospitals and allowed their indoctrinated doctors to mutilate these women in the name of ideology and adherence to a warped religious ethos. Is there no end to the abuses this hideous church has been involved in? How anyone in Ireland can still associate themselves with this church is beyond comprehension surely any decent person would walk away from such a vile organisation and yet even this week we have the circus going on in the RDS and Croke park, I wonder how many of those who are attending it would be so keen to do so if they had suffered the abuse the victims of this cruel and debilitating medical mutilation have, another example of how the catholic church in Ireland abused it’s power and how the feeble state and it’s deferential gombeen politicians let them get away with what amounts to religious inspired experimentation on Irish women, Mengele would have been proud of them all, church and state and those doctors and nurses who carried out the mutilations, following orders no doubt from the bishops and nuns who controlled the hospitals!

How low can the Catholic church go? Seriously, what’s next? Pope caught drowning kittens and puppies as a hobby?! If this was an organisation of carpenters or accountants, they would be rounded up and all jailed for life for crimes against humanity, conspiracy to hide crimes, protecting evil criminals.

I hope the Government take a stand on the right side for the victims. How long have they been fighting for retribution and compensation? Will they get their compensation now without any qualms, bluffs, delays etc?
I could not even imagine for one second the pain they must have gone through. They are a brave lot to stand in front of the Dail and demand their rights and compensation. I fear though, that the vast majority of them will be dead, before the Government will act.

The passage of time reveals more and more reasons to fear the irrational. Any other institution that perpetrated these horrors would be decommissioned yet the mob rule of a supposed defunct culture keeps the same institutions in control of schools and hospitals.

The Catholic Church & human sexual reproduction – what comes to mind? let’s see: contraception bans, celibacy, virgin birth, immaculate conception, women’s lack of rights on fertility control, that procreation is for procreation only and then only in marriage, children born out of wedlock are somewhat second class, unmarried mothers, refusal to sanction reproductive technology and so on. For a bunch of celibate men, they have a great deal to say on human reproduction. As regards some Obstetricians in Ireland, those that butchered women with impunity for so long, all were male, had a strong Catholic ethos as had the hospitals they were employed in. Dark times indeed.