Health Board Censure Contraception Article Westmeath-Offaly Independent

Health Board Censure Contraception Article Westmeath-Offaly Independent

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Newspaper article by "Westmeath-Offaly Independent" dated 4 January 1985 and entitled "Health Board to censure Desmond on contraception?". Discusses the Midland Health Board's opposing of Health Minister, Barry Desmond, T.D.'s liberalising of laws governing the availability of contraceptives. References the "blistering attack" by Mr. C. J. McCormack's, Consultant Surgeon at Portlaoise General Hospital, on the Irish Family Planning Association [I.F.P.A], who he accused of having "a vested interest in the promotion of sexual promiscuity".

Westmeath-Offaly Independent

Arthur Leahy Collection

1985-01-04

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