HSS 2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Informed Consent, Middle Ages, Henry Morgentaler
19 Apr 2018
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The bad (promiscuous) girl costume: birth control for married women only. Other women could only get it under the table. Doctor was the gatekeeper of the birth control: magdalene asylums (laundries) bad girls". Bad girls blamed for what happened to them. Asylums were institutions in ireland who accepted bad girls" for infractions such as being too interested in boys, pregnant out of wedlock. Baby mamas were worked until they had the baby then they were put up for adoption. Used as free labour - would do all the laundry for the hotels in the area for example. Rich us families would adopt - notion of bay buying and selling. Many kids died prematurely (tb, malnutrition: another home in nova scotia did a similar thing - the ideal maternity home . Allowed jewish families to adopt cause in legal settings jewish families could only adopt jewish babies: comfort women.
