(TRIGGER WARNING: Please be aware that some of the details in the following story are very harrowing.)
Between 1940 and 1984, about 1,500 women and girls, as young as 14, in the Republic of Ireland, underwent the procedure and are still fighting for justice.
Source: Irish women had pelvic bones sawn in half during labour without consent | The Canary
I didn’t know about this at all. What terrible stories those women have to tell. And we campaign against surgical ignorance in so-called Third World countries. This beggars belief…
Best wishes, Pete.
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It is utterly grotesque that this was going on and into the ’80s as well.
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There’s always been something darkly barbaric lurking inside the Irish Catholicism.
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Most certainly.
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