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Unwed mothers, unknown choices

The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Oct. 30 2013, 7:30 PM EDT Their accounts sound like something out of The Handmaid’s Tale: doctors forcibly tying women to their beds during labour; nurses refusing to let them hold their babies; social workers coercing them into signing adoption papers. The allegations stretch as far back as the […]

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Tilson would support study of forced adoptions

By WES KELLER For the Citizen Dufferin-Caledon MP David Tilson says he was deeply touched by an emotional meeting of several of his colleagues from all federal parties with a few ladies from Origins Canada, all of whom had been forced to give up babies for adoption. Although the ladies might have been in their […]

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Women’s push for review of coercive adoption practices gains traction in Ottawa

THE GLOBE AND MAIL POSTED ON OCTOBER 23, 2013 Women say as unmarried teens they were coerced by maternity homes, social workers, doctors and nurses to give up their newborns KATHRYN BLAZE CARLSON – OTTAWA Women who say they were coerced into surrendering their babies decades ago have received an unprecedented audience with politicians in […]

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Women coerced into surrendering babies years ago find support in Ottawa

KATHRYN BLAZE CARLSON OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Oct. 22 2013, 9:07 PM EDT Women who say they were coerced into surrendering their babies decades ago have received an unprecedented audience with politicians in Ottawa, gaining support from members of all three major parties for a parliamentary study of Canada’s historic adoption […]

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Adoption fraud suspects want charges thrown out

Brian Caldwell Aug 23, 2013 KITCHENER — The case of a former couple accused of ripping off an international adoption agency has been delayed while they try to get the charges against them thrown out. Rick and Susan Hayhow were scheduled to go on trial early next month in relation to hundreds of thousands of […]

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Court gives go-ahead to lawsuit over natives’ forced adoptions in Sixties Scoop

DIANA MEHTA TORONTO — The Canadian Press Published Tuesday, Jul. 16 2013, 7:01 PM EDT A class-action lawsuit which claims a loss of cultural identity was suffered by aboriginal children adopted into non-indigenous homes during the so-called Sixties Scoop was given the green light to proceed by an Ontario court on Tuesday. The case – […]

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Australian PM apologizes for forced adoptions

By Rod McGuirk CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a historic national apology in Parliament to the thousands of unwed mothers who were forced by government policies to give up their babies for adoption over several decades. More than 800 people affected by the policy cried and cheered as they listened […]

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Gillard delivers apology to victims of forced adoption

By: ABC.net Prime Minister Julia Gillard has delivered a national apology to victims of forced adoption practices that were in place in Australia from the late 1950s to the 1970s. More than 800 people affected by forced adoptions gathered at the Great Hall in Canberra for the historic occasion. “Today, this Parliament, on behalf of […]

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‘It was so painful’: Forced-adoptions conference calls for federal inquiry

By: Sarah Boesveld For Bev Colasimone MacDonald, it was a comfort to be in the same room with several other mothers who surrendered their children to Canadian maternity homes decades ago. But even so, as she listened to their stories and spoke about her 16-year-old self — alone in a home for unwed mothers in […]

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United Church of Canada to hold mirror to its role in forced adoptions as families push for national inquiry

By: Kathryn Blaze Carlson The United Church of Canada is poised to strike a special task force dedicated to uncovering historic forced adoption practices, just as a national group prepares for an unprecedented conference next week that it hopes will catapult the topic squarely on to the public agenda and pressure the federal government to […]

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