Irish woman awarded $600,000 over barbaric broken pelvis birth procedure

@IrelandNorth..Bravo ! I concur , and enjoy the syntax of a writer conveying in colloquialism that actually caused me to look up a word I haven't used in 20 years ? ; "Quixotic" , that could help keep things concise ..but being overtly pedantic just to anger the obtuse and miscreants ? lol..dirty pool..lol.. Oh ! mercy on the dullards... LOL! "Der'er ear be a bleed'in " !

I think it's horrific...the procedure was actually used in the 1800's by doctors who didn't have the knowhow, facilities or courage to perform a Ceasarean birth, in order to save the life of both mother and child....otherwise they would have to crush the baby's skull in order to deliver it...but it should never be used today and shouldn't have been in the 1900's either.

"..encouraged by the Catholic Church, apparently carried it out because it was felt that it gave a better opportunity than Caesarean births for the mother to become pregnant again.." There you have it; the RC church was intent that as many baby Catholics as possible would come into this world so as to forever replenish its treasury. How cynical, diabolic and calculating this cult/church is. Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital - Our LOL Hospital more like. How fitting that a hospital be named after Lourdes - one of the last places you'd want to go on a junket to.

Hospitals under the auspicies of a crypto-theocracy are bound to have problems with the 100% of births which aren't immaculate. Just another manifestation of the quixotic nature of a sexually inactive misogynistic clerical hierarchy theoretically hypothesising about the reproductive praxis of non-subscribers. Reminds me of the Salem village witch scare inspired by the medical profession in the 1600's Massachussetts over competition against midwifes for homebirths. With the former winning the franchise.

Sirpete, has someone used your log in? 'Religion has played a large role in protecting women'??? Women were safer under British rule than they ever were under the church in ireland! Single pregnant women did not have their babies stolen from them and were not put into laundries under British rule either! The church ruined womens and womens right in this country!

Oh yeah!!Blame the Catholic Church.If a kid fell off his bicycle it would be a priests fault at this stage.I don't give a crap about religion.But ye are a bunch of idiots.Ye have no idea of what ye are undermining and what will take it's place.Here is a little example for ye thickos.I'll make it simple because ye are simple.Sunday was a family day not so long ago.It was a day of rest.It was a holy day said the catholic church.You must not work.But the greedy managed to make it an ordinary working day at the expense of the thickos.Ye work now everyday thickos when the greedy tell ye.No more official family day.Women I wouldn't be so fast to break down religious institutions.Men are still running the world and always will.Religious institutions try to instill a moral code in men.Men lose their sense of morality very easily when not kept in check.Think who really suffered in a war zone.Are politicians and the powerful teachers of morality?Women live under mans law.There is only a thin veneer of morality protecting women and children from men.Religion has played a big part in protecting women.Take away religion from society and see how hard life will become.Men won't breaks your hips they will break your necks.Muslim women don't complain much to their men in the war zones.They never have a headache either or get uppity .I wonder why not.

Porick, this was done instead of a c-section. According to the church, if they broke the womans pelvis she could get pregnant over and over again but if they performed a c-section, it was only ''safe'' to have 2 children. The catholic church is a barbaric misogynistic organisation. This is as bad a female genital mutilation. Its actually the same thing.

Something is inconsistent. The article says the procedure was performed after the cesarean not before or in lieu of the cesarean delivery. What does the Church have to do with it? The surgeons thought the procedure would make future births easier. Remember years ago (and today) a cesarean was considered as limiting the number of births that a woman could have. If she wanted a family of more than two the procedure was thought to be beneficial. Apparently this was later determined to be less than medically acceptable and it was known that women could have more than two cesarean births.

Searlit | Mar 24, 2012, 11:05 AM EDT I feel sick right now after reading this. How could they? Very easy Seaelit- dehumanise the woman to the role of an animal- a breeder- as described in the sacred texts and do as you please to her. The Catholic church has done this worlld wide over thousands of years- Irish "pagans", women, Indigenous tribes world wide all suffered torture at the hands of the men of the death cult.The spiritual people of the world were called barbarians- so they were murdered easily. But who were and are the real barbarians?

"When I heard how women were actually shown a saw before it was used on them, I was horrified." Many doctors, encouraged by the Catholic Church, apparently carried it out because it was felt that it gave a better opportunity than Caesarean births for the mother to become pregnant again." Yes, most people in Drogheda area of Mother Teresa's hospital knew that wombmen were made to suffer for their sin of having sex and the inquisitors were the medical mafia who did the bidding of the good old men of god. So, on reading the article it is clear that wombmen were simply seen as breeders as described in sacred texts of this barbaric cult of Roma. The question is now, why do so many still remain in the cult? Are they willingly complicit or are they suffering Stockholm syndrome? bonded to the abusers? We need to address this matter.

I feel sick right now after reading this. How could they?