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Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: I was born in 1983 in the country of the Magdalen laundries, the Kerry Babies case, the case of Ann Lovett and many other horrors. It has been said in the debate that the past is another country, and this is true in some very important respects, most importantly in respect of people's attitudes to these issues. However, in legal terms, that country continues today with the eighth amendment,...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: ...this debate is a question of control by the State of women and women's bodies and on that question, Ireland has a dark and shameful history. We are becoming more aware of the outrage that was the Magdalen laundries where women were literally incarcerated as prisoners. Those who were pregnant had their babies taken from them, and sold. We are just recently aware of the Tuam mother and...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Denise Mitchell: ...in their own state. It was a state in which the Catholic Church held sway over society. We need only look at the disgraceful and horrific treatment of women and children who were incarcerated in Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes to see how the State and religious institutions persecuted and oppressed women. Let us not be fooled into thinking that somehow we have all...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Dessie Ellis: ...of the State have been extremely conservative. They were also heavily influenced by the Catholic Church and other conservative institutions. Women were treated as second-class citizens and the Magdalen homes were a consequence of that mindset, but we have come a long way since the condom trains to the northern part of the country. Even the acquisition of the morning after pill was...