Ever the bastion of mercy and forgiveness for wayward women, Catholic
church-run charities around the world stand accused of forcing unwed
mothers to give up their babies for adoption — or lying and telling them
their babies had died and then giving the babies away, anyway.
Depressingly, Operation Hand The Baby Over, You Hellbound Adultress wasn't a relic of Torquemada-era moralizing; the most recent cases of forced or coerced adoption are said to have occurred in the late 1980's. And punitive tactics used on pregnant women then sound oddly like language used in laws designed to be abortion deterrents today.
http://jezebel.com/5896835/church-spent-decades-stealing-or-coercing-babies-from-unwed-mothers
Depressingly, Operation Hand The Baby Over, You Hellbound Adultress wasn't a relic of Torquemada-era moralizing; the most recent cases of forced or coerced adoption are said to have occurred in the late 1980's. And punitive tactics used on pregnant women then sound oddly like language used in laws designed to be abortion deterrents today.
http://jezebel.com/5896835/church-spent-decades-stealing-or-coercing-babies-from-unwed-mothers
