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An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2015): Joe Higgins: ..., women in Ireland will never have equality. Have we not lived through religious and State policing of people's bodies and personal lives for long enough to see the misery it inflicts? Have we forgotten the Magdalen laundries, the criminalisation of male homosexuality, symphysiotomy and all the vestiges of a horrific past, which are now recognised as an affront to human rights? It must,...
Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013): Joe Higgins: From the foundation of the Irish State in 1922, 10,000 girls and women passed through the institutions known as the Magdalen laundries. The report of a group chaired by the former Senator Dr. McAleese, which was released a few weeks ago, shows how the State was directly responsible for approximately one quarter of admissions to those institutions. In many cases those involved were sent to...
Promissory Notes: Motion (12 Feb 2013): Joe Higgins: ...perverted as their predecessors in the Irish Church and State displayed in a previous era - in the era of the incarceration, for example, of young women in the Irish version of the Gulags, known as the Magdalen laundries, something which, tragically, we have heard much about in the past week.

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