Endometriosis 'feels like a knife-fight is going on inside you quite often', Fianna Fáil TD Erin McGreehan told the Dáil. Photograph: Fennell PhotographySome medical professionals have suggested to teenage girls they should have a baby to “sort your endometriosis problem”, Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has told the Dáil. The Minister said she had met teenagers where “professionals in the medical system” suggested having a baby “because that would release the symptoms of endometriosis”. But “I have listened to women of different ages, including teenagers, who have been told, go and have a baby. The more we try to explain what pain women have been going through, it will be better understood.

Source: The Irish Times November 20, 2025 21:56 UTC