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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.
A flawed surgeon operating in a deeply flawed systemThe 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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