Monthly Archives: June 2012

Websites will be legally obliged to provide victims with the identity of people who post abusive and defamatory online messages about them under plans by the [UK] Government.

Major reforms of the libel laws will also see internet service providers (ISPs) given greater protection from being sued if they help to identify so-called trolls.

Would-be claimants will have to show they have suffered serious harm to their reputations, or are likely to do so, before they can take a defamation case forward.

 

Websites Will Be Forced To Identify Trolls (Sky)

Thanks Michael Jackson

Above: symphysiotomy survivor Marin O’Moore, with her daughter last March prior to the first Dail debate about the procedure.

A DRAFT report commissioned by the Government into the use of a controversial childbirth operation says one of the reasons it was used was to obey laws influenced by the Catholic Church that banned contraception and sterilisation.

It is estimated up to 1,500 women underwent symphysiotomies – an operation to widen the pelvis – between the mid-1940s and mid-1980s. The procedure has since been linked with lifelong health problems such as incontinence, chronic pain and mobility problems.

The use of symphysiotomy began to decline from the late 1950s as a result of increased confidence in the safety of repeated Caesarean sections. However, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital continued with the procedure until 1984.

Presumably not a hot topic at the Eucharistic Congress.

Church influenced birth procedure, says report (Irish Times)

Previously: Meet Marin

(Photocall Ireland)