Sisters of Charity give up role in Dublin maternity hospital

[trotsky]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/29/sisters-of-charity-nuns-give-up-role-in-dublin-maternity-hospital

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Nuns from a Catholic order that ran institutions in Ireland where women were enslaved and children abused for decades have given up any involvement in running the country’s new national maternity hospital.

After weeks of pressure and public outrage, the Sisters of Charity announced on Monday it was ending its role in St Vincent’s Healthcare Group (SVHG), the trust set up to manage the new maternity facilities in Dublin.

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The Sisters of Charity was one of the orders that ran the Magdalene Laundries, institutions that were controlled by Catholic orders from the late 18th century and well into the 20th.

Many of those incarcerated were young, unmarried women who became pregnant and had their babies taken from them – in some cases sold to wealthy Catholic couples without children in the US.

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[Lordquinton]

1. Good

Even if they refuse to accept responsibility, I'm glad that there is enough outrage to keep them out.