# symphysiotomy - Saturday 12 December, 2020
# Mairead Enright
# Mairead Enright
“It also suggests that if we want survivors to be treated properly, we need to hold the state to the highest possible standards in the Oireachtas.”
# symphysiotomy - Thursday 10 December, 2020
# ECHR
# ECHR
The three women from Dublin, Cork and Meath had sought damages from the State.
# symphysiotomy - Monday 28 November, 2016
# Clark Report
# Clark Report
Last week 399 women who had the procedure were awarded up to €150,000 in compensation – but almost a third of applicants to the scheme were rejected.
# symphysiotomy - Wednesday 23 November, 2016
# Symphysiotomy
# Symphysiotomy
“The sons and daughters of these women feel that their mothers’ suffering never received any acknowledgment or recognition.”
# symphysiotomy - Tuesday 22 November, 2016
# Compensation
# Compensation
However Marie O’Connor, spokesperson for a symphysiotomy group, described the grants as “an official whitewash”.
# symphysiotomy - Monday 21 March, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
Women who submitted their own medical records did so in the belief that they would be returned. So what’s gone wrong, asks Dr Vicky Conway.
# symphysiotomy - Saturday 27 February, 2016
# Shredding Dispute
# Shredding Dispute
The move comes after symphysiotomy survivors objected to an online notice warning them that unclaimed medical records would be destroyed.
# symphysiotomy - Thursday 25 February, 2016
# Symphysiotomy
# Symphysiotomy
Symphysiotomy survivors are urging the state’s redress scheme not to go ahead with plans to destroy unclaimed medical documents.
# symphysiotomy - Friday 1 May, 2015
# Test Case
# Test Case
Campaigners for survivors of the procedure say this is “symptomatic of the ongoing absence of effective remedies” for other women in her situation.
# symphysiotomy - Tuesday 3 February, 2015
# Court
# Court
A symphysiotomy case settled in the High Court for undisclosed fee
# symphysiotomy - Friday 30 January, 2015
# Symphysiotomy
# Symphysiotomy
The case currently being heard in the High Court is the first of its kind against a hospital.
# Courts
# Courts
The woman is taking a case against the Coombe Hospital, which denies all charges.
# symphysiotomy - Sunday 18 January, 2015
# Redress Scheme
# Redress Scheme
There has been some difficulty in those who underwent the procedure accessing their medical records.
# symphysiotomy - Thursday 4 December, 2014
# Deadline
# Deadline
The scheme has been criticised by some advocates for symphysiotomy survivors.
# symphysiotomy - Sunday 16 November, 2014
# Oppressive
# Oppressive
The terms the Government is offering are flawed and “oppressive” according to survivors.
# symphysiotomy - Thursday 13 November, 2014
# Deadline
# Deadline
Women have 20 days to sign up the redress scheme.
# symphysiotomy - Thursday 6 November, 2014
# UNCAT
# UNCAT
The government has announced a redress scheme today. Here are the victims’ stories.
# Redress
# Redress
That’s according to a survivors group SOS, which describes its time limits as “draconian”.
# symphysiotomy - Friday 26 September, 2014
# Childbirth
# Childbirth
The three deaths have occurred since the scheme was announced in July.
# symphysiotomy - Thursday 11 September, 2014
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everyone’s talking about the Oscar Pistorius verdict, staff at University Hospital Galway being disciplined and Leo Varadkar responding to criticism from the Taoiseach.
# symphysiotomy - Tuesday 29 July, 2014
# Symphysiotomy
# Symphysiotomy
The UN human rights committee said Ireland should identify, prosecute and punish those responsible for the procedures without patient consent.
# symphysiotomy - Thursday 24 July, 2014
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
The Minister for Justice said that the Government would continue to help and support victims of symphysiotomy.
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
The human rights committee also said that those who carried out the procedures without consent should be prosecuted, where possible.
# symphysiotomy - Thursday 17 July, 2014
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
The UN criticised Ireland’s abortion laws and lambasted the State for failing “to assign any accountability” to issues like Magdalene Laundries, mother-and-baby homes, child abuse and symphysiotomy.
# symphysiotomy - Monday 14 July, 2014
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
The Justice Minister defended the State redress scheme for survivors of symphysiotomy at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva today.
# symphysiotomy - Wednesday 9 July, 2014
# Symphysiotomy
# Symphysiotomy
Noreen Burns, 83, was subjected to a symphysiotomy after her child was born by Caesarean Section in 1959.
# symphysiotomy - Sunday 6 July, 2014
There are currently up to 300 survivors alive today.
# symphysiotomy - Saturday 5 July, 2014
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
Plus: How many Irish students say they’re not having sex?
# symphysiotomy - Wednesday 2 July, 2014
# Symphysiotomy
# Symphysiotomy
There will be no closure with money – only with finding out where their child’s remains are.
# symphysiotomy - Tuesday 1 July, 2014
# Symphysiotomy
# Symphysiotomy
The Government has said that the payments will be ex-gratia – in other words, no blame admitted.
# symphysiotomy - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
# Investigation
# Investigation
The procedure, that left many woman with lifelong disabilities, was carried out in Ireland until the late 1980s.
# symphysiotomy - Thursday 15 May, 2014
# Means Tested
# Means Tested
A survivors group is accusing the Government of “hollowness”.
# symphysiotomy - Sunday 6 April, 2014
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everyone’s been talking about Ian Bailey, John Joe Nevin, and MH370…
# Symphysiotomy
# Symphysiotomy
There are now two reports about the issue on James Reilly’s desk – but neither has been published.
# symphysiotomy - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
# UNCAT
# UNCAT
The survivors have brought their search for justice to the United Nations Committee Against Torture.
# symphysiotomy - Monday 3 March, 2014
# Medical Scandal
# Medical Scandal
Reliance on ex gratia redress schemes should be read against a backdrop of Government reluctance to allow these victims – and others like them – to speak on their own terms about the recent past, writes Máiréad Enright.
# symphysiotomy - Sunday 29 December, 2013
# Review 2013
# Review 2013
Magdalene survivors, symphysiotomy campaigns and UNCAT criticism of abortion guidelines…this is the year that was.
# symphysiotomy - Monday 9 December, 2013
# Symphysiotomy
# Symphysiotomy
The government’s u-turn on the lifting of the statute of limitations for one year, to facilitate legal action for the women, has been described as “appalling”.
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