Comments on: Comment: Why are women in Northern Ireland still denied bodily autonomy? https://leftfootforward.org/2016/04/comment-why-are-women-in-northern-ireland-still-denied-bodily-autonomy/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: ben madigan https://leftfootforward.org/2016/04/comment-why-are-women-in-northern-ireland-still-denied-bodily-autonomy/#comment-759546 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:34:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=111070#comment-759546 if we want to look at the damagedone by interference of state and church, look no further that the symphysiotomy debacle in the republic of ireland

Prof Sir Nigel Rodley, Chairman of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland
“The Magdalene Laundries, the Mother and Baby Homes, the child abuse, the symphysiotomy – it’s quite a collection and it’s a collection that has carried on [for a] period that it’s hard to imagine any state party tolerating. And I guess I can’t prevent myself from observing that [they] are not disconnected from the institutional belief system that has predominated in the state party.”

]]> By: ben madigan https://leftfootforward.org/2016/04/comment-why-are-women-in-northern-ireland-still-denied-bodily-autonomy/#comment-759540 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:27:10 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=111070#comment-759540 neither church nor state has a role to play in regulating what women do with their own bodies. It should be an issue to be discussed and decided between the woman and her doctor, with input from the partner if he’s around, interested and available. As in Italy the final decision is between woman and doctor https://eurofree3.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/abortion-on-demand-now/

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