Survivors of Symphysiotomy protest, Merrion Street, Dublin 2 in 2014

This morning.

The European Court of Human Rights has declared applications from three Irish women who underwent symphysiotomies in Irish maternity hospitals in the 1960s as inadmissible.

Symphysiotomy is a surgical procedure in which preganant women has the cartilage of her pubic symphysis divided to widen the pelvis.

Via RTÉ:

The ECHR has found that in one case the complaint was inadmissible as the applicant had failed to exhaust domestic remedies in the Irish courts.

In the other two cases it found the applicants’ complaints to be manifestly ill-founded, indicating that a question regarding the exhaustion of domestic remedies also arose.

Cases taken over symphysiotomies declared inadmissible (RTÉ)

Previously: Symphysiotomy on Broadsheet