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Mutilated by brutal 'surgery of last resort'
Collective silence ensured no one was ever made accountable for the butchery of Lourdes.
The sheer scale of abuse at the Lourdes has yet to be comprehended. Decades of symphysiotomy -- a birth operation permanently widening the pelvis -- paved the way for decades of female organ removal.
Symphysiotomy was often preferred to Caesarean, the norm for obstructed labour: Catholic thinking viewed Caesarean section with suspicion, associating it with sterilisation, contraception and abortion.
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