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Artist, poet, mother and carer. Former teacher Founder of surplus food CIC and DV charity Green party PC @SprotCusPC
Apr 2, 2022 22 tweets 6 min read
🧵A thread about adoption abortion and maternity care and the sisters of charity 🧵
1/ The adoption board was formed after adoption became legal in 1953 Tom Woulfe was the first registrar of the new Adoption Board in 1953 an appointee of McQuaid. 2/Archbishop McQuaid scrutinised every line of the 1952 adoption act a result of which meant a restriction on children of mixed religious denomination from being adopted and restrictions where a mother recently changed her religion.