IRELAND
The Irish Times
Doctors who forced a medical procedure on pregnant women to widen the pelvis as recently as the 1990s did it to fight the crime of birth control, it has been claimed.
Victims of symphysiotomy, a practice in which doctors broke women’s pelvises to ease childbirth without their consent, have called for Dáil support in their bid for justice and compensation.
Campaigner Marie O’Connor accused medical professionals of depriving women of a caesarean section, which they regarded as an artificial form of contraception.
“Doctors were using a scalpel to control women’s reproductive ways, stopping them from having a much safer caesarean section,” said Ms O’Connor.
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