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Mum, medic, academic. Pro Vice Chancellor, Health & Life Sciences @LivUni Lead Investigator @ChildrenGrowing

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Louise Kenny
7 months
This is a monumental day for #Liverpool An Academic Health Science Campus will provide the space for innovation in health and ultimately will improve outcomes for our citizens. A lot of work to do but exciting times ahead #researchsaveslives
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Exciting news... Senior leaders at UoL have signed an agreement with @LivHospitals to advance plans for an Academic Health Sciences Campus on the site of the former Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Find out more 👉
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My lovely dad has #dementia & has not said my name for several months now. Tonight he thought I was about to set myself on fire with a candle that I was too close to- and he spontaneously shouted my name to warn me. The sound of his voice saying my name out loud- just magical (1)
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My mum turned 80 during the first lockdown- she’s a self confessed technophobe but such is her love and longing for her grandkids, she now has a smart phone, is on What’s App and today she gave a ‘Grandma Bakes’ 2 hour masterclass on FaceTime. Check out the tripod!
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As I’ve shared before, we are in the long goodbye of dementia with my lovely dad. This morning he saw me kissing Matt (father of my children- a fixture in our lives for a quarter of a century) and my dad winks at me and says- ‘I think that one looks like a keeper’ 💗
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My mum & dad met at a dance 58 years ago. These genes never made it to my brothers & me but their grandkids have always loved watching them. Even now during the #longgoodbye they can still cut it. Live from my living room-my mum & dad- 28 seconds of magic & a lifetime of love 💖
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I’m followed by a lot of mums and dads and soon to be mums and dads so on the vaccine issue I will say this and leave it here: as a young medical student I witnessed a young child die of measles meningitis. A horrific death that has stayed with me. (1)
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End of chemo gift tee-shirt. Made me laugh!
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5 years
#thelonggoodbye Today was the day when my lovely dad forgot me. Sort of. I caught him looking at me with a worried gaze and I said ‘Dad- do you know who I am?’ And he said ‘Not really- but I know I love you’ #dementia really is awful- but these times with him are so special 💗
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Louise Kenny
5 years
As I’ve shared before, we are in the long goodbye of dementia with my lovely dad. This morning he saw me kissing Matt (father of my children- a fixture in our lives for a quarter of a century) and my dad winks at me and says- ‘I think that one looks like a keeper’ 💗
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Louise Kenny
6 years
My dad (85) and my mum (78) enjoying the sunshine on a fine day to make history. This generation have amazed and humbled me. #TogetherforYes #repealthe8th
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Louise Kenny
4 years
As an academic clinician in O&G I try to stay in my lane & comment on #covid only when highlighting my expert colleagues’ work. But for folk like @allisonpearson platforming the #barringtondeclaration and raging against lockdown, I would offer the following advice (1)
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Signing off Twitter for a while now- thanks to everyone- too numerous to mention- for your support over the last few months. When I voted, when the exit poll reported & today in the Castle at the final count I thought of Michelle. She helped make history. She #repealedthe8th
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Louise Kenny
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My lovely Dad died in Ireland during lockdown. His sons couldn’t be there with him, or with our Mum during his funeral. My own son is a doctor & couldn’t attend his beloved Grandad’s memorial in the UK because of quarantine. So nothing about #golfgate is even faintly amusing (1)
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Second cycle of adjuvant chemo and feeling so lucky to live in an era when science has made my cancer curable and so lucky to live in a country where the science has translated into free healthcare #ScienceRocks
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I have personally witnessed care denied to a woman with cancer because of the 8th. She died. I’m an obstetrician. I’m a professor. I’m a member of the Institute and the RCOG and indeed Chair of the RCOG Research Committee (1)
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Louise Kenny
5 years
Still my dad- still looking out for me. Dementia robs so much but love endures (2/end) #longgoodbye
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Louise Kenny
7 years
Irish doctor (me) says that the Catholic Church is ‘not a health service’ Stop giving non experts airtime on topics they know nothing about
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Catholic bishop says abortion is 'not a medical treatment'
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Raised with first world privilege- catholic & anti-choice by default. Then in Africa I met a 14 year old child pregnant as a result of gang rape. She was in obstructed labour & died on arrival. No one came to collect her body. I think of her daily #ShareAStoryInOneTweet #itstime
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Louise Kenny
2 years
Getting a transfusion today rather than chemo as my bloods are a little off- so a huge thank you the donors who generously gave of their time and their blood so I could feel better- and a reminder to everyone who can- please #GiveBlood @Giveblood_ie #IBTS
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Louise Kenny
2 years
Chemo for me tomorrow so my Mum is busy making baked goodies for the amazing nurses on the day unit. She is trying to show them how much she cares for how they care for me with chocolate… #lovenurses #nursesrock
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Louise Kenny
5 years
When a parent has dementia the funny moments matter enormously. Watching #ReelingintheYears (for U.K. friends this is a bit like the #BBC Rock and Roll Years)- and Margaret Thatcher is featured. My lovely dad says ‘WHY on God’s earth is she STILL Prime Minister- she’s awful!’ (1)
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Worse- there is contagion & now all vaccines are subject to second guessing by the ill informed. #HPVvaccine could eradicate cervical cancer (and others) within two generations but conspiracy theorists are undoing decades of investment & work and delaying humanity’s progress (4)
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Louise Kenny
4 years
My wonderful Dad has come to the end of his #longgoodbye He will be missed more than anyone who was lucky enough to know him could ever say.
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Louise Kenny
4 years
And in Liverpool we know that we are stronger together and our resilience will ensure we endure. We value and trust experts - nothing lasts forever- and until they crack this we will take care of each other and do whatever is needed. Our city has faced and conquered worse (end)
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Louise Kenny
5 years
There are very few silver linings when a loved one has #dementia BUT the shear joy of my dad learning 4 times today (and once when it actually happened last night!) that #LFC had won Big Ears again was just lovely! #6times #LFCfamily #YNWA #longgoodbye
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Louise Kenny
6 years
His research has been utterly discredited from every angle & over many, many years. The MMR vaccine saves lives. It is completely safe. There are sick children in Ireland and the U.K. tonight at risk of dying from a disease that is completely preventable & should be history (3)
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Louise Kenny
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This happened today. My grandparents are likely spinning like tops but it was a wonderful day at the end of a difficult 18 months. #CBE #BuckinghamPalace
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Louise Kenny
4 years
I’m an OBGYN qualified 26 years. Reimplanting an ectopic pregnancy is scientifically & clinically impossible. It’s NEVER been done. This is just barbaric. Reproductive rights are human rights & the fight is global. #freesafelegal #abortionsaveslives
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Louise Kenny
6 years
To all Irish women watching @RTELateLateShow who have travelled - stay strong. We are #TogetherforYes We will #repealthe8th and our sisters and daughters will never have their human rights debated on prime time. You’re not alone x
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@john_mcguirk Repealers can call me Louise
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s experience: in 25 years of clinical practice I have never met a woman who wanted a termination. I’ve met many who desperately needed one. Just #repealthe8th #trustwomen #togetherforyes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s fact: the 8th amendment does not prevent abortion, it just means they are exported to the UK. It means sick women need to travel & invariably terminations are performed later. It’s our most shameful export. It’s inhumane. It has to stop. #repealthe8th #TogetherForYes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s fact: under the 8th and PLDP, termination of pregnancy is only legal to save the life of a woman and not to preserve the health. Nowhere else in medicine are we forced to withhold a safe procedure until someone is dying. End this inhumanity. #TogetherForYes
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Louise Kenny
5 years
Flying into Cork airport and home for the weekend. Ireland is beautiful and I’ll never tire of this view. If the exit polls are to be believed, Ireland is also free of alt right nonsense. Just wonderful. A year exactly after we #repealedThe8th it’s good to be home x
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Mum of two, UK trained obstetrician & gynaecologist for 25 years. I’ve cared for Irish women seeking termination of pregnancy in the UK and Ireland. It’s not a choice- it’s a decision. It’s also a human right. #repealthe8th #knowyourrepealers
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Louise Kenny
6 years
At Dublin Castle with @mairenihuigin @drjendonnelly @TaraFlynn @louisemcsharry What a day! We #repealedthe8th and I’m so happy and so proud of Ireland xxx
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Out canvassing and a man (a no voting retired accountant) started to draw me (a practising obstetrician) a picture on the back of an envelope of a 10 week fetus.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
To all the women I’ve ever known who have faced a crisis pregnancy- & there are many- once again can I virtually put my arms around you & apologise (again) that your human rights are being debated on prime time television. Ireland is better than this #repealThe8th #TogetherForYes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
So I’d like to #keepthepoet as I think President Michael D Higgins is a wonderful ambassador in a time when wise men are few and those who cherish and respect history and communication are much needed. He makes me proud to be Irish. #miggeldy #michaelDhiggins
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Louise Kenny
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@cuppatealove @glenmore888 #keepthepoet I think this might just be the most perfect hashtag
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Louise Kenny
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The consultant tried to comfort the shattered team by sharing his certain belief that- and I quote- ‘measles will soon be like smallpox- there is an effective & safe vaccine & soon no child will ever die like this’ This was the early 1990’s. And then Andrew Wakefield happened (2)
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Louise Kenny
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I worked every Christmas for 12 years in the HSE. This year my intern son will work nights for a week including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & St Stephens in Dublin. His Dad - also a medic- is working Christmas in Cork. @campaignforleo should know better.
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Louise Kenny
4 years
I’ve nothing sensible to offer on COVID-19 other than to remind everyone that the experts in this situation are our colleagues in Public Health and Infectious Diseases. Everyone is entitled to an opinion but we should listen to experts in these specific disciplines (1)
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Louise Kenny
4 years
Watching the PM press briefing and my 80 year old mother has used unparliamentary language for the first time in a lifetime. She says God need not forgive her because he’s on her side and the rest of them are destined for hell.
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Louise Kenny
4 years
Don’t @ me about excess deaths from non-COVID causes- because as every clinician who has any knowledge of COVID will tell you- if you ‘let the virus rip’ our hospitals will fill as they have done in Liverpool, elective work will be cancelled & non-COVID death rates will rise (5)
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Louise Kenny
4 years
As my amazing colleague @Dr2NisreenAlwan said ‘Preventing death is delaying death. They’re the same thing’ because we will all die eventually but only someone missing their moral compass would embrace fallacious arguments about letting the virus rip & accepting early death (4)
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Louise Kenny
6 years
I’m signing off Twitter for the night now- running on fumes and tomorrow is a BIG day. But to all my friends in the UK & elsewhere in the world- I want to thank you for your kind messages & support over the last few months. It’s helped massively. #repealthe8th (1)
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Louise Kenny
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This little boy is graduating tomorrow from @tcddublin He is the newest Dr Kenny. I don’t have many baby photos because he was born very pre-term and we were both v sick. Wish I had known then that 22 years later he would follow his parents into medicine (1)
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s fact: ‘post abortion syndrome’ is not recognised by any medical or psychological organisation because it doesn’t exist. Restricting access to abortion on the other hand is associated with an increased risk of depression and suicide #TogetherForYes
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Louise Kenny
5 years
My dad and mum hold hands whilst watching TV. Every night. After 58 years of marriage. #lifegoals #longgoodbye
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Louise Kenny
2 years
First full day back at work today- but thanks to an unwanted visit from COVID- on line rather than face to face. I’ve really missed @livuniHLS - it’s been brilliant to see the team. Back full time in May- and so looking forward to catching up with everyone in the real world!
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Louise Kenny
5 years
My first Christmas in 25 years not on call- 13 in the #NHS & 12 in the #HSE . Celebrating Christmas early though as the younger of these two is on call at St James all over Christmas on nights. @campaignforleo #ImAtWorkLeo #WeAreWorking #wearedelivering the next generation!
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Louise Kenny
6 years
So my baby is now officially the newest Dr Kenny. Not sure how that happened or where the years went but I am one excessively proud mum. The 2018 class of ⁦ @tcddublin ⁩ are unfailingly bright, funny and kind- and very gender balanced! #thefutureisbright
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Finally listened back to the interview @john_mcguirk I never said these words. I stand over the cases discussed & the extrapolation but you completely invented the quote below-& you had the audacity to call me a liar. Outrageous. You have no place in this debate. #togetherforyes
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John McGuirk
6 years
@louiseckenny @ArtimusFoul @jonathanhealy @PatKennyNT You went on the airwaves, and said "hundreds of women are in their graves as a result of the 8th amendment". I've asked you I don't know how many times to name them, and now you say three (but can't name them). The public can draw their own conclusions.
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Louise Kenny
5 years
Happy Monday everyone. It’s exactly a year since this exchange. I remember this time last year so clearly- the hope we would, the fear we might not. Facts and compassion got us there though. Lots done but more to do #nowomanleftbehind #thenorthisnext #repealedThe8th
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Louise Kenny
6 years
@john_mcguirk You’re unblocked now John. Work away. And it’s Professor Kenny.
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Louise Kenny
5 years
In Liverpool tonight- thinking of all those women who will never have to travel again. Grateful to all my English colleagues who have provided care for so many years when Ireland couldn’t. We can finally bring this home. We #repealedthe8th
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Louise Kenny
4 years
But to end on a positive note- the same experts pilloried by some extreme elements in the media are working night & day to navigate us out of this & science will win. @LivUni are developing new therapies via @LivAgile We are trialling vaccines via @NIHRCRN_nwcoast (6)
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Louise Kenny
4 years
And we are working round the clock to deliver mass screening, uncover the immunology of the virus, track the genomic evolution & understand the pathology of #LongCovid We care deeply about the socioeconomic consequences of COVID in a city like Liverpool (7)
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Thanks but I fully understand the law as it relates to medicine. And absolutely- women are free to choose a different obstetrician. But I suspect most want a medical expert who will put them first. Finally- it’s Prof Kenny to you. #repealthe8th #togetherforyes
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Louise Kenny
4 years
Come to Liverpool & see what we are dealing with. Or wait for a couple of weeks - because as sure as night follows day it’s coming soon to a hospital and a community near you (2)
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Louise Kenny
3 years
My mum got her second vaccine today on her 81st birthday! To celebrate and in thanks we are donating to @UNICEF #GetAVaccineGiveAVaccine because nobody is safe until everyone is safe- please support this wonderful initiative.
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Louise Kenny
2 years
And in other news- I got some wonderful chemo hats from @BoldBeanies - anyone who knows me will now just how perfect this hat is :) #breastcancer
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Louise Kenny
4 years
Bittersweet but wonderful all the same. He would have loved this. #YNWA
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Louise Kenny
4 years
And if it doesn’t (& I really hope no one has to experience what Liverpool is currently enduring) it will be because the advice & guidance of the experts you seem to despise will have made a difference and will have delayed the death of many thousands of people (3)
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Louise Kenny
6 years
@Pmjk1 @john_mcguirk Look lads- you can try and spin this - and you clearly are trying- but facts are facts and the truth will out. The 8th is a danger to the health and wellbeing of women. Fact.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Friday fact: of the 3265 Irish women and girls who had a termination in the UK in 2016, 66 were aged 17 or under and 10 were under 16. These children of Ireland deserve compassion and care. #togetherforyes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
And for the last 12 years I have worked as an obstetrician in Ireland specialising in the management of high risk pregnancy. It is an outrageous lie to say that the 8th has never changed medical management or adversely affected the outcome of a woman with cancer.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Every time an Irish obstetrician tells you that we can provide safe care under the 8th read this. Doctors who don’t see this are blinded by faith. The 8th harms women everyday. #togetherforyes #repealthe8th
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Thanks to a very sensible suggestion and with apologies for not having done this to begin with- from tomorrow all daily facts will come with their own hashtag #repealfacts I’ll be tweeting FACTS every day until May 25th. In addition - I’ll retweet all previous facts with the #
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Louise Kenny
5 years
And another thing- I LOVE the way the guy at passport control always smiles and says welcome home Louise. 😍
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Louise Kenny
5 years
Flying into Cork airport and home for the weekend. Ireland is beautiful and I’ll never tire of this view. If the exit polls are to be believed, Ireland is also free of alt right nonsense. Just wonderful. A year exactly after we #repealedThe8th it’s good to be home x
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Louise Kenny
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My yes is for every woman I know- & those who I have never met- who have travelled in secrecy & shame. They are now gazing at posters and listening to people with opinions debating their human rights and wondering- can we do this? We can #WhoNeedsYourYes #itstime #togetherforyes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s #repealfact The 8th amendment creates uncertainty. There is no medical or legal definition of ‘substantial’ or ‘immediate’ so in the minutes & hours when doctors should be concentrating on a critically ill woman we are distracted by a law. It’s bad medicine #repealthe8th
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Louise Kenny
5 years
#longgoodbye music still reaches my Dad. He’s always had the moves & today he took me for a turn across the floor. He spent years patiently trying to teach me ballroom. I always wanted to dance like mum but never did. But oh the love I have for this wonderful man. Precious times
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Louise Kenny
5 years
Managing expectations here in Cork. Not. My first memory is sitting on my dad’s shoulders watching #LFC parade the FA cup around the city in 1974. Watching the game with him tonight during the #longgoodbye is so precious.
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Louise Kenny
4 years
A few years ago my husband (an OBGYB) was in his (private) clinic with a couple. The husband asked if Matt could guarantee that if he wasn’t available for the birth a ‘white doctor’ would be there. Matt took great pleasure in escorting them out in front of a full waiting room (1)
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"The default position should be that patients do not choose the ethnicity of their clinician and employers should make that crystal clear. Anything else is a very slippery slope." @rogerkline
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Shocking deceit from the NO side here. I was Michelle’s doctor. Her drug treatment stopped because of GCP and the 8th amendment. Facts matter. #repealthe8th #togetherforyes
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Late to Dr Kirsten Fuller's 'alternative facts' on Michelle Harte. Dr Marion Dyer ( @Doctors4Choice ) discussed the 8th on @TodaySOR on May 9 with Dr Fuller. Michelle Harte went public so no other woman would suffer her fate. She died in 2011. @louiseckenny #repealthe8th
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Louise Kenny
2 years
Delighted to share this news- great way to end a challenging year. Massive thanks to my team ⁦ @LivUni ⁩ and ⁦ @LiverpoolWomens ⁩ and all our national and international partners. Research is a team sport and this is for them. #NYHonours
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Sharing this again- because it’s so lovely of my dad. He’s a wonderful father- and even though we are now in the long goodbye of dementia - he is never happier than when he is with my mum and surrounded by his children and grandchildren. Happy Fathers Day xx
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s #repealfacts So- in the UK in 2014, less than 0.1% (190) of abortions occurred at 24 weeks. NONE were performed under ground C- meaning that in EVERY case there was either a serious fetal abnormality or a grave risk to the mother’s life (1)
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John McGuirk
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Later this morning, @Savethe8thInfo will launch this detailed, fact-based, position paper on how the Government's bill legislates for the abortion of healthy babies at 6 months gestation.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
@john_mcguirk You’re unblocked now John. Work away. And it’s Professor Kenny.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s fact: 61 Irish women had a termination of pregnancy @LiverpoolWomens in 2017- for complex medical or fetal reasons. They are 61 #ReasonsToRepeal They are 61 Irish women denied medical care by the 8th. 61 women shunned & forced to travel. Let’s end this. #togetherforyes
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Louise Kenny
4 years
The news is out! Absolutely delighted to have secured ⁦⁦ @wellcometrust ⁩ funding for the first new birth cohort in the UK for two decades. Children Growing up in Liverpool #CGULL #madeinLiverpool and #changingtheworld @LivUni ⁩ ⁦⁦
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Louise Kenny
6 years
The soon to be Dr Eamon Kenny. And his excessively proud mum.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
So- in the northern hemisphere it’s time for the #FluVaccine Flu is dangerous for pregnant women and unborn babies. It doubles the risk of #stillbirth The flu vaccine is safe. Don’t believe conspiracy therorists and nut jobs. Have the jab.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
I’ve worked 24-56 hours shifts & missed my kids’ birthdays, sport’s day, parent’s night, Christmas (lots) & anniversaries. As a consultant I’ve missed weddings, parties, plays, concerts. #wearedelivering when everyone is asleep. Not sure how more antisocial it can get- insulting!
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Keelin O'Donoghue
6 years
In Obstetrics & Gynaecology we already work all the anti-social hours that exist. Happy to have any politician witness this (w/o cost of hiring any PIs). Not sure how to create more hours; it’d be very handy with all my other roles & responsibilities... Ideas, #wearedelivering ?
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Additional fact! These wonderful kids are the best. #togetherforyes #RepealThe8th
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Louise Kenny
2 years
Sickening. Women will die. And don’t think for one minute that it couldn’t happen here. Women’s basic human rights are always hard won and easily stripped away. #RoeversusWade #RoeVWade Right to abortion overturned by US Supreme Court after nearly 50 years in Roe v Wade ruling
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s fact: restricting access to abortion does not reduce the number of abortions- it just makes them unsafe. Countries with the most permissive legislation for abortion tend to the lowest rates (source W.H.O). #repealthe8th #TogetherForYes
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Louise Kenny
3 years
First #chemo then myself and this complete legend got our #boosterdose Two modern day miracles of medical research in one day!!! #ScienceRocks #BoosterShots #BoosterVaccine #GetTheShot
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Helpful flowchart. Apologies but I don’t know who to credit (please let me know). Anyway- let’s #repealronan and raise the bar. Use the flowchart and share widely! #werepealedthe8th and Ronan is next.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s fact: for those who ‘don’t believe’ in abortion- it happens anyway despite restrictive laws. Such laws make it unsafe for women - over 20,000 women will die from unsafe abortion this year. 20,000 #reasonstorepeal #togetherforyes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
I mean- I wouldn’t tell another professional how to do their job. I’m clearly not qualified to completely mess up a political campaign- I’ll leave that to John- but he should leave medicine and obstetrics to me and my colleagues. Read #repealfacts #repealthe8th #togetherforyes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
#fakenews This is blatantly not true. Just because you keep repeating false information it doesn’t make it any more correct. Scare tactics. That’s all. #repealthe8th #togetherforyes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Today’s fact: the 8th amendment discriminates against poor and vulnerable women without the means to travel. Flights, hotels and medical bills. #repealthe8th #TogetherForYes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
In 21st century Ireland @RonanMullen an elected official thinks that sometimes unwanted sex isn’t rape. For avoidance of doubt & by every definition, women pressurised into unwanted sex have been raped. This sickens but doesn’t surprise me. I hope the electorate remember this.
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Senator Rónán Mullen
6 years
And by the way @SimonHarrisTD no disrespect but if you think there are no situations outside rape where women are pressurized into ‘unwanted sex’ get some of your advisers to brief you.
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Louise Kenny
5 years
This.
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Louise Kenny
4 years
Slightly belated but for #WorldPrematurityDay and for the 23rd year, I’d like to thank the amazing team @LiverpoolWomens for saving the life of this 30 weeker (and his mummy). He’s now a junior doctor. Wish I’d known how this would turn out 23 years ago.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Slightly weary at this point but facts are important. So it’s *4* former Chairs of IOG & a committee chair- not 200 of anything. Of the 5 of them- 4 are long retired & one doesn’t work in this jurisdiction. Meanwhile back on planet Earth- over 80% of us want to #repealthe8th
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Anyway- mustn’t let @john_mcguirk refusal to answer my questions distract me from today’s #repealfact In Sweden- with permissive legislation and good healthcare, there are virtually no terminations after 18 weeks. Legal, accessible, safe and free. #repealthe8th #togetherforyes
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Louise Kenny
6 years
Happily, most people can always call me Louise and you know who you are 😀 but #wearedelivering advocacy & equality. We need girls and women to see us & to choose science and medicine. So yes- #ImmodestWoman #changeyourtwitterhandle
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Dr Niamh NicGhabhann (@niamhroisin.bsky.social)
6 years
In a world where the voices of women & girls are vastly unrepresented & so often go unheard - in almost every single aspect of public life - #changeyourtwitterhandle is an important way to signal the right to have the expertise of women recognized. We need to hear more women.
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Louise Kenny
6 years
#doctorsforyes will be arriving in Dublin from all over the country very soon- so proud of my colleagues and friends from all specialities & grateful for the support! And a shout out to those back home on call- you guys are amazing too! #itstime #TogetherForYes #RepealThe8th
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