Okay, officially angry now. Fair does to the @CitizAssembly on the work they did on gender inequality. It’s good. But I am looking down that list and nothing is included on maternal healthcare. And if you look at the meetings held, maternal healthcare wasn’t even a consideration.
And I have seen a flood of congratulatory tweets about it. You would have thought that the fact the Irish govts failure to implement a maternity strategy for 5 years, in an area which solely affects the health and wellbeing of women and their kids, would be cause to pause.
Frankly, it’s beyond disgraceful that this key area wasn’t considered. The issue of childcare was discussed, but not care before, during and after childbirth? Seriously, I’m speechless. Our modern history is littered with the bodies of women who died in childbirth.
I mean, Ireland’s legal principles used to judge medical negligence are based on the failure of care for Kay Dunne, during the birth of her son, William Dunne at the National Maternity Hospital in 1982. How is this not a key gender inequality issue?
That’s before we get to cases like Michael Neary, the obstetrician who faced *no legal charges* for conducting unnecessary caesarian hysterectomies, and retired on full pension in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Liberal and left Ireland is going to pat itself on the back for this latest set of recommendations, just like it patted itself on the back for Repeal the 8th and say its doing a grand wee job on becoming a more progressive equal society and women *will keep dying in childbirth*.
Absolute disgrace. The decoupling of women’s rights during pregnancy and childbirth from the rest of their rights is just a joke.
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