Ireland: Symphysiotomy, the ‘mass medical experiment’ based on flawed Catholic doctrine butchered young women for decades from 1944 to 1984 irishexaminer.com/news/sp…
TIL Chainsaws were originally invented as a medical device. They were used to perform a procedure known as a symphysiotomy, in which pieces of the pelvis are removed in order to assist childbirth. This procedure is still done to this day in developing countries where C-sections are unavailable. babygaga.com/chainsaws-in…
Symphysiotomy, the ‘mass medical experiment’ that butchered young women irishexaminer.com/news/sp…
[r/atheism] Ireland: Symphysiotomy, the ‘mass medical experiment’ based on flawed Catholic doctrine butchered young women for decades from 1944 to 1984 reddit.com/r/atheism/comm…
Symphysiotomy: How The Chainsaw Was Originally Used In Childbirth allthatsinteresting.com/s…
‘I was just 27 and I was butchered’: Irish symphysiotomy survivors in their own words thejournal.ie/symphysioto…
The original chainsaw was used in a symphysiotomy, the preferred method for quickly removing a child from a woman’s womb for almost three centuries.
TIL that the chainsaw was invented in the late 18th Century by two Scottish doctors, John Aitken and James Jeffray, to perform a Symphysiotomy, which is the widening of the woman's pelvis during difficult childbirth. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1…
The original chainsaw was used in a symphysiotomy, the preferred method for quickly removing a child from a woman’s womb for almost three centuries.
Symphysiotomy - a frightening alternative to C-section - used without consent on hundreds of Irish mothers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sym…
UN Human Rights Committee told of symphysiotomy patients 'wide awake and screaming' - Independent.ie independent.ie/irish-news…
Woman loses appeal over symphysiotomy finding rte.ie/news/2016/1014/824…
'He was sawing me in half:' Ireland's gruesome era of symphysiotomy - CNN.com edition.cnn.com/2015/01/3…
Symphysiotomy survivors horror stories, so difficult to read. thejournal.ie/symphysioto…
UN says Practitioners of symphysiotomies 'should be punished' | Irish Examiner irishexaminer.com/breakin…
TIL: It is estimated that 1,500 women unknowingly and without consent underwent symphysiotomies during childbirth between 1944-84. It was supported by authorities, as it supposedly increased birthrates en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sym…
Often performed in the place of Caesarean section, symphysiotomies involved breaking the woman’s pelvis during childbirth. The operations were carried out without prior knowledge or consent “mainly for religious reasons, by obstetricians who were opposed to family planning.” thejournal.ie/symphysioto…
Symphysiotomy is a surgical procedure in which the pelvis is widened to allow for mechanical difficulties in childbirth. It is rarely performed in the developed world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sym…
Concern some symphysiotomy patients excluded from redress scheme rte.ie/news/2015/0414/694…
"Ireland was the only country in the Western world to practise symphysiotomy until the 1980s. The operation involved sawing through a woman’s pelvis to separate the bone in order to accommodate a baby’s head. It was done for religious reasons...." xpost from world news reddit.com/r/worldnews/co…
Symphysiotomy victims tell the UN about cruel and barbaric childbirth operations thejournal.ie/symphysioto…
Symphysiotomy survivors to be compensated from today: Symphysiotomy involves cutting a woman's pubic bone to widen the birth canal during labour. breakingnews.ie/ireland/s…
Woman awarded 450k over symphysiotomy rte.ie/news/2012/0323/sym…
