The Green Party has called for the establishment of counselling services for the women on whom caesarean hysterectomies were performed by the consultant, whose work is now under review.
The party's women's affairs spokeswoman, Ms Patricia McKenna MEP, said it was impossible to imagine the consequences of such operations on women as young as 20.
"It is bad enough if a hysterectomy is absolutely necessary but to live with the knowledge that it was probably not must be devastating. These women have lost the chance to ever have a child of their own. All will suffer serious side effects, both medical and psychological. The Minister must provide all possible supports to them straight away," she said.
She called for an immediate audit of maternity units. "Doctors, and especially consultants, take to themselves an extraordinary degree of power over women's bodies, even to the point of involving themselves in political matters concerned with women's sexuality.
"If ever a case pointed to the foolishness of allowing them this power, then this is it. If the details of this case are proven then I think that whatever power doctors have assumed over their patients will need to be regulated by some authority other than the medical profession itself," she said.