IRELAND
Irish Mirror
Ciara Conway
As I sit to write this article, anger is growing at the terrible things that happened in mother and baby homes in our country.
Young women forcibly separated, first of all from their communities, then from any sense of pride or self-worth, then from their babies.
And their babies neglected, starved, illnesses untreated, labelled worthless, and ultimately buried in unmarked mass graves.
Left in the end without even an identity. We know now that that happened as a manifestation of official policy.
Young pregnant women were separated and confined in these brutal situations in order to enforce a stigma of shame. They were declared unequal – and treated accordingly.
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