Maternity hospitals face probe over operations

THE HUMAN Rights Commission (HRC) has begun a preliminary investigation into brutal operations carried out on Irish women by religious run maternity hospitals in the 1950s to 1980s.

Sat, 24 Feb, 2007 - 00:00

Mary Regan

The HRC is examining a hundred cases of symphysiotomies — a procedure of sawing through the pelvis.

The procedure was carried out on women who needed Caesarean sections.

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