800 Dead Babies found in septic tank at former home for unwed mothers

[lynn82md]

I saw and snagged this from ONTD_political. By the way, this is going to piss you off.

In a town in western Ireland, where castle ruins pepper green landscapes, there's a six-foot stone wall that once surrounded a place called the Home. Between 1925 and 1961, thousands of "fallen women" and their "illegitimate" children passed through the Home, run by the Bon

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[lynn82md]

The grim findings, which are being investigated by police, provide a glimpse into a particularly dark time for unmarried pregnant women in Ireland, where societal and religious mores stigmatized them. Without means to support themselves, women by the hundreds wound up at the Home. "When daughters became pregnant, they were ostracized completely," Corless said. "Families would be afraid of neighbors finding out, because to get pregnant out of marriage was the worst thing on Earth. It was the worst crime a woman could commit, even though a lot of the time it had been because of a rape."I've heard about this attitude going on in other countries too, sometimes way before 1921. I remember seeing episodes of Ghost Hunters where there was a mention that a woman killed herself or/and her baby because she was an unwed mother and it was a major no no

[jem_endured_fit]

I saw this as well and posted it to another internet site Hot Topics forum. The common response was disgust.

My initial argument is that the church is to blame, for the immediate shaming of the women and for creating a culture where such a "home" as necessary.

[lynn82md]

My initial argument is that the church is to blame, for the immediate shaming of the women and for creating a culture where such a "home" as necessary
It is. The scary thing is that a hundred years hasn't even passed since this kind of thing happened. Usually when you read shit like this, it happened more than a hundred years ago.

To me, this is not following their belief that "All life is sacred" and they wonder why many people (especially those of us who are pro-choice) don't believe them when they say that or the whole sancity of life tripe. If you preach that every single life is sacred and then treat children of unwed mothers like shit, no...you don't believe every life is sacred. Just those that they see as doing no sin. That's not every life, that's just the life they find to behaving themselves. That, in of itself, is hypocrisy. And they wonder why so many people don't follow the Catholic church like they did in the old days