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[quote=Anonymous]Has anyone else listened to the 6-episode Wondery podcast called Liberty Lost?  I am dying to talk about it with other listeners and want sure wtwher to post about it here, in Religion, in Politics, or in Parenting-Special Concerns.

Short story: if you thought the shameful era of “girls who were sent away” in secret to religious maternity homes where they were coerced, pressured, and often forced to give up their babies for adoption was a thing of the past, may I introduce you to the Liberty Godparent Home at Liberty Univeristy in Lynchburg, VA?

Falwell and Co have been raising tons of money for decades on this maternity home, convincing their duped followers that they are saving babies from abortion by providing care and suooort to pregnant women so they will save their babies.

In truth, virtually none of the women sent to the home ever considered abortion (all raised Evangelical) and they weren’t cared for or supported at all — they were put on Medicaid so taxpayers fitted the bill for their medical care while Falwell raised money off it.  And yes, they got free room and board but only if they were considering adoption.  Anyone who was sure they wanted to parent was booted out.  And the girls are relentlessly shamed, pressured, and outright bribed with full ride scholarships to Liberty if they give up their babies to the affiliated adoption agency to essentially sell to the highest bidder.

The level of lies, intimidation, coercion, and outright predation inflicted on these young mothers is absolutely obscene.

I feel really passionately about this issue because my mom was one of those girls sent away to a Catholic home for unwed mothers as a teen in the 60s and the trauma of it not only ruined her life but truly traumatized our next generation as well.  I have struggled with the effects of neglect and parental addictions.  One of my siblings died by suicide.  Our mom spent our childhood in and out of hospitals with depression and suicide attempts.  Her feelings of guilt were absolutely paralyzing and suffocating to all of us.  Even in reunion with her first child who miraculously found us 3 decades later, the trauma and suffering did not ever really relent for her.  She trusted the Church and was betrayed on so many levels through the process, with outright cruelty.  And worst of all with the lie that relinquishing mothers are still told: that relinquishment is the greatest expression of love, that knowing that you did the brave and selfless thing by giving your baby to a wealthy “better” family would assuage your agonizing pain at losing your baby, that going on and having other children would heal those wounds: all lies then and all lies now.

I had no idea that evangelical maternity homes are growing all around the country and are perhaps even more abusive and coercive than what my mom endured 60 years ago.  I am furious that women my age would inflict this cruelty on their own daughters in order to be good handmaidens to Christian nationalist patriarchs.  It has truly sent me into a tailspin of rage that this kind of systematic abuse of young woman is still occurring, and babies are still being ripped from mothers who desperately want to keep them.

Anyone care to listen and discuss????[/quote]

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