‘A nun called me a destroyer of lives’: how adoption rights activist Susan Lohan fought the Irish establishment

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  1. Woman who can’t have kids tells a woman who can what she should do because a god she can’t prove exists supposedly frowns upon it.

  2. What shocks me about all this isn’t the disgusting actions of religious orders, the medical profession and the state. About all you can expect from those moral degenerates and our ‘governing elite’. No what really shocks me to the core and makes me question our national spirit, is the attitude of the Public towards unwed mothers or anyone who had ‘fallen into sin’.

    I do think we need to hold older generations to account. To call them out. They weren’t passive, helpless bystanders to all this. The culture of holier than thou curtain twitching ‘piety’ and vicious gossip helped facilitate the actions of the church and the state. These women faced utter humiliation and degredation at the hands of their neighbours, their colleagues, their families. Much of the Irish public was a willing participant in all this. They may not have run the adoption schemes or even known the true extent of the horrors, but they would happily spit on a neighbour to justify their own pious bullshit.

    I find it utterly nauseating. Whenever I see a person of a certain age head into Church, all I can think of is their generations collective guilt and how easy they got off…

  3. Sadly, obtaining birth certs of adopted people is a type of doxing. It has to be done with extreme care, and it is right and proper that there is pushback, even though it is a perfectly understandable request.

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