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IRELAND'S RELIGIOUS GENOCIDE OF UNWED MOTHERS

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Guest Post | by Owen Felix O'Neill Between 5,000 and 7,000 healthy single mothers died in Irish unwed mothers institutions and w e need an honest public discussion of that appalling toll. I was born in such an institution: St. Patrick’s on the Navan Road Dublin, the biggest in the country. I spent my first 4 years there.  My mother, Norah, was 38 when she had me in 1954. It obviously wasn’t easy for her or the other women of these homes and although I never knew her, the following is based on my conversations over the years with other women who survived the homes. RELIGIOUS BUTCHERY -NOT MEDICINE In some London hospitals in the early 1940s, 50s and 60s, many of the midwives in training were Irish nuns. But once  their training was completed and  they  returned home to Ireland and  started to work at the nine main unmarried mothers homes they altered some of the surgical procedures they learnt in London to lethal effect.   An episiotomy, although no longer routine, is a f
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  BABY HOMES REPORT IS A SICKENING WHITEWASH The official inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes  has absolved both the Church and State of any systemic responsibility  for what it admits is the effective incarceration of pregnant mothers. The report also  fails to find that mothers were coerced into giving up their children . It merely reports that "some" mothers 'claim' they did not properly consent. And the inquiry also seems to have made  no recommendation  of significant  redress  for affected mothers. Destroying a mothers life by forcibly removing her child is fine by the Commission. Most women gave up their baby voluntarily it insists! To plug that embarrassing hole the government says a 'restorative recognition' scheme with still-unspecified awards will be launched in a few months. We can expect little or nothing by way of redress. The  bias of the Commission against mothers  was apparent from it's first interim reports -which insisted that physical ab
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MOTHER AND BABY HOMES DELAY ADDS INSULT TO INJURY

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Survivors of Ireland's Mother and Baby homes are distraught and angry following a news report that the judge leading a Commission of Investigation into 14 such homes has requested an additional year to issue her final report -currently due by mid-February 2019. "This morning I woke to the news that the commission of investigation are looking for another year. Another Year! And I just bust into tears," says Rosemary Adie of Irish First Mothers  -the largest group of natural mothers.  "I'm heartbroken and my mental state is shattered." "I was so sick today," said Sheila O'Byrne who was in St. Partick's Home on the Navan Road, Dublin.  "It was shocking to read about a year delay in the paper without any prior warning from Minister Zappone."  "It was the lowest thing to do. It was despicable and demeaning to our survivors. The 15th of February, 2019 is the deadline and we expect that commitment to be met."
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