Dáil debates
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements
5:05 pm
Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source
Many people found it highly ironic that at a time when the country was voting in the referendum on the eighth amendment and many Members were campaigning to put women at the centre of their own lives and healthcare, the Government was ensnared in a scandal which involved women's health and views being utterly diminished. It has been confirmed in the report that paternalism ran and runs through women's medical care. Medical misogyny is a term that has been used in that regard. Doing medicine on the cheap is another term I would use because the Minister has stated that he is satisfied with the quality management of the labs and that that was confirmed by the report.
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