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No inquiry planned into reports of Irish infants used in medical research

published by Tom Sullivan on Tue, 2011-10-11 22:05

The Department of Health says there are no plans to hold an inquiry into allegations that the bodies of hundreds of babies born to unmarried women in Ireland’s mother and baby homes were used in medical experiments after they died.

Last night, RTÉ’s Prime Time ran a special programme uncovering how hundreds of children at Irish institutions were used for medical research and dissected by medical students without their mothers’ consent right up until the 1960s.

The research also allegedly included vaccine trials in contravention of medical guidelines on captive populations. According to the programme, children’s residential institutions and mother and baby homes provided infants who could be monitored closely.

A spokesperson for the Department of Health told TheJournal.ie today that Reilly and Fitzgerald “deeply regret any distress caused as a result of any out-dated practices which are no longer in place or acceptable”.

Source and full story: The Journal, 9 October 2011

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Comments

Submitted by Tom Sullivan on Tue, 2011-10-11 22:09.

In the interest of accuracy, this is a comment on this story by a member of the Adoption Rights Alliance on another site where this story was posted...

A couple of corrections: first, this article was *not* by Adoption Rights Alliance. It is a rehash of an original article written by Conall O’Fatharta of the Irish Examiner, distorted (as usual) by journal.ie. Dept of health did NOT say there were no plans to hold an inquiry. In fact, no departments to date have even commented publicly on the Oct 6th Prime Time episode.

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