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My brain took a moment to register the word infant. As in the child was already born.

Satanic Panic was projection.

This is probably from poor medical care.

Looks like all the kids died of disease? Definitely evidence that the world has gotten better not worse.

Religion has historically provided a safe haven to the sick and twisted among society, where they're allowed to act with impunity due to their perceived status.

That's not directly due to the religion; but rather due to the societal pedestal being devout seems to put people on; "a holy person could never do that to a child" etc...

The reality is, other areas that benefit from this sort of status too find themselves riddled with bad actors... Just look through charity organisations and I can guarantee you'll be combing over a sea of sociopaths buying themselves good credit with public opinion rather than people looking to make a difference because they want to (not to say these people don't exist; they just don't end up running the show normally)

I'm old enough to remember everyone getting all bent out of shape by Sinead O'Connor ripping up a picture of the Pope.

She was a couple of years early, but right.

To the "religion is what makes us civil" crowd, fuck off all the way to whatever hell you believe in or just the sun.

Disclaimer: This is not a call for violence.

I feel like maybe only people who have vaginas and can get pregnant should have a say in the whole abortion rights issue. So I'll step aside and just mention that my drainage system has zero bodies in it. So you know, like most normal people should probably have more voice than the Catholic church with rapist priests and 800 abortion bodies in their drain pipes. But yes, we should all be allowed to present evidence :).

Playing devil's advocate here, could it be that they ran something like a baby euthanasia outfit? like, no contraceptives back then, extreme social stigma surrounding birth out of wedlock, poverty forcing women to give up their newborns, giving them up to the nunnery, which had no resources to deal with feeding caring and raising thousands upon thousands of children, and so either A) simply took it upon themselves to take the logical step and cull some of them, or B) that a high number of babies died of natural causes (neglect, malnutrition, sudden infant death syndrome, disease, whatever) and they simply disposed of them.

I don't know what else could explain this, it's not like we're seriously talking about gangs of murderous baby killing nuns roaming the streets at night and snatching up babies by the hundreds for lust murders, right?

As far as I'm concerned, the only crime here is the institutionalized psychopathy of a religious patriarchal system that refused to take responsibility for giving people a legal and moral avenue to raise children that were brought into life in violation of religious law.

Makes more sense to me at least, I may be fuck way off wrong.

Every time I run into a pro lifer, I tell them about what happened in Ireland.

Most of them ignore me, some say it's worth it.

Sick bunch of Penguins.

Religion is fucked up.

Don’t trust any religious people.

They’re all sick in the head.

My dad recent got a decent payout for being the internationally trafficked childhood victim of one of these unwed mother homes…

Not worth his lifetime of trauma, nor the issues that came with being sold at age 4 to a “keeping up appearances” family that sent him away to boarding school on top of everything..

But it’s something.. he’s mid 70s, so you know, totally enough time to use the money.