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kskiska

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21. I remember the Catholic "homes for wayward girls."

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Sat Oct 1, 2016, 06:07 PM

Oct 2016

There was one in Hartford, CT - St. Agnes. Girls "in trouble" were sent there by parents who were ashamed of them, and no girl left the home with a baby. There's a movie, "The Magdelene Sisters," about those sorts of places in Ireland.

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Remembering Life Before Roe [View all] niyad Sep 2016 OP

I can remember my horror when at age 13 a classmate told me that her sister had gotten pregnant, Arkansas Granny Sep 2016 #1

and yet, this is the horror to which these woman-hating gestational slavers would have niyad Sep 2016 #6

I was an unwanted pregnancy pre-Roe. Coventina Sep 2016 #2

bless that doctor for caring. but, we are glad that you are here! niyad Sep 2016 #7

Aw, you're too kind! Funny thing is, when my mother told me that story Coventina Sep 2016 #16

I've a friend....... mrmpa Sep 2016 #3

I lost a friend to a septic abortion in the 60s Warpy Sep 2016 #4

A friend died from a self induced abortion @ 15 in the late 60s. irisblue Sep 2016 #5

and the woman-haters would happily have us return to this nightmare. niyad Sep 2016 #8

Exactly. They don't care if women die in illegal, back alley abortions. smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #10

they really are no different in attitudes than the mindset that created fgm, whose niyad Sep 2016 #11

...so incredibley sad...nt JanMichael Sep 2016 #12

. . . . niyad Sep 2016 #9

Rec for exposure awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #13

K&R Solly Mack Sep 2016 #14

K&R Warren DeMontague Sep 2016 #15

k and r niyad Sep 2016 #17

Never, Ever Again! MineralMan Sep 2016 #18

exactly!! niyad Oct 2016 #19

. . . niyad Oct 2016 #20

I remember the Catholic "homes for wayward girls." kskiska Oct 2016 #21

the magdalene laundries in ireland were an abomination. the movie "philomena" with dame judi niyad Oct 2016 #22