The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Another sad reason why the Roman Catholic in Ireland is in trouble!
ReplyDeleteProcedure 'used to fight birth control'
Church influenced birth procedure, says report
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.
“Women can have no more than around four caesareans so doctors effectively saw them as birth control - a way of capping the family number.”
Women were left permanently disabled after the procedure of symphysiotomy, which was carried out on some 1,500 Irish women between 1944 and 1992. It has long been banished in the developed world.
Ms O’Connor, spokeswoman for the National Membership Organisation for Survivors of Symphysiotomy, was among some 20 victims in the Dáil today.
She addressed the Justice Committee, which was discussing the group’s draft Bill proposing to amend the statute of limitations, which could lift a bar preventing survivors from seeking redress through the courts.
“These cases go back 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years,” said Ms O’Connor, ahead of the committee meeting.“These were covert operations. Women were given no information prior to surgery, no information after surgery. These were involuntary operations. There was no informed consent.”
Women were left with permanent ailments, including incontinence, chronic pain, prolapsed organs, and neurological and psychological problems.
The symphysiotomy procedure was performed in preference to the safer and more standard caesarean section - as recently as 1994.
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