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Ireland’s horror operation victims speak out

Al Jazeera investigates why a brutal medical technique used on some women during childbirth has only just come to light.

Video Duration 04 minutes 22 seconds 04:22
Published On 18 Oct 2014

Women’s rights campaigners in Ireland are demanding justice for victims of what they describe as a brutal medical practice, used in some hospitals for years, and yet is hardly known about. 

It involves sawing through a woman’s pelvic bone and cartilage during a difficult childbirth.

Al Jazeera’s Laurence Lee reports from Dublin.