Church Spent Decades Stealing or Coercing Babies from Unwed Mothers

The nuns stole the babies... and sold them worldwide... I am one of them... St. Vincent De Paul... who were working for the catholic church orphanages... snatched me away from my mother's arms... at the catholic hospital for unwed mothers... in Wellington New Zealand... took me down to Christchurch... to Mount Madgala orphanage... beside one of their Magdalene laundries... their other Magdalene laundry.. in New Zealand was in Wellington... my mother kept hold of me for as long as she could... I was 2 and a half months old at that time... and it affected her... for the rest of her life... she was raped at 15years old...  Ann

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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.

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