#Symphysiotomy

For the ECHR nerds among you: today's ECtHR judgments on symphysiotomy completely ignored what I felt was one of our strongest arguments in the case, which relied on Soderman v
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Reading the ECHR symphysiotomy judgments in detail now. They are hardly a vindication of govt policy. Two points caught my eye: 1) The court largely adopts the state's line
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My thoughts on today's ECtHR rulings in the #symphysiotomy cases: the Court took a narrow, formalistic approach, that allowed technical and procedural considerations to obscure egregious rights violations, and expected
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We need to think carefully about how we frame symphysiotomy. Women did not "tend to have" many babies in some sort of careless oversight. Their reproductive autonomy was restricted by
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Tomorrow morning, the European Court of Human Rights will deliver an important ruling on a dark chapter of how the Irish healthcare system abused women throughout the 20th century.A quick
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A few commentators have suggested that because the MBHCI shared some staff with previous well-received investigations chaired by Yvonne Murphy, complaints about the MBHC must be exaggerated or unreasonable. Murphy
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THREAD1/9Maura Lynch was born in #Cork in 1938, into an #Irish-speaking family. Maura entered the convent of the Medical Missionaries of Mary just before her 18th birthday. #IrishWomenInHistory #NollaigNamBan #Gaelige
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I regret to inform you that chainsaws were originally invented for childbirth(close your legs and prepare ye for a thread, sources here: https://bit.ly/3jMoOdl ) When you see a chainsaw hacking down
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