More than 180,000 women in the 1950s, 60s and 70s were 'shamed' into giving up babies, report says.
These witnesses spoke of the "shame" and "secrecy" that surrounded their pregnancy.
"It was just such an awful thing to say. She would never have said it to anybody else who was married, so why did she say that to me just because I was unmarried? She obviously thought I was one of the lowest of the low."A doctor said to another mother that "I should be sterilised as I must be a nymphomaniac".One wrote that "they pulled her out of my arms… the pain was unbearable".Other evidence detailed the trauma of handing babies over to social workers.
Chair of the committee, Labour MP Harriet Harman, said the affected women had "suffered from shame and vilification and the burden of secrecy for decades". "There's lots of shame, lots of guilt, there's lots of secrecy and being part of a secret society like this involved in forced adoptions has been extremely difficult for everyone involved.""Sorry is so important and all of us out there are still living with the trauma and the pain that this has caused us.The committee concluded there are "some things that only a government can do, and it falls on the government to make this apology".
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