A horrifying policy from the 1950s-1970s gets formal government acknowledgement.
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"I wasn't informed about any other option really except adoption. 'Only selfish mothers keep their babies.' I was told that, and ... if I really loved her, I would do what's best for her."
— Faye Nyssen
Via: abc.net.au
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"A nurse came and sat down beside me and smiled. And I thought, 'Oh thank God there's a smiling face!' Anyway, she settles herself down beside me and pulled up a chair, and proceeded to take a leather shackle from her uniform. And she started strapping up my right wrist ... I didn't know what she was doing, and then she secured me to the side of the bed. So I became unconscious. And I don't know how long I was unconscious for, but when I eventually came to, my son was gone."
— Jan Kishin
Via: abc.net.au
