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jmowreader

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5. Banishment also used to be a thing

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 30, 2019, 12:59 PM

Apr 2019

Some rich people who couldn’t get their daughters’ “sins” erased would take them to their vacation homes three states away until the baby was born, then have the babies put up for adoption.

Which makes me wonder if the girls’ parents taught them to “never let your husband see you naked until you’ve had your first child together.” That way, they’d have a plausible cover story for the stretch marks and darkened areolas that come with having had a baby.

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If the forced-birth cult wins... [View all] TygrBright Apr 2019 OP

Shameless self-kick for the day crowd. n/t TygrBright Apr 2019 #1

That cult only wants to force YOU to give birth jmowreader Apr 2019 #2

There were a couple of girls in my high school like that. murielm99 Apr 2019 #3

Banishment also used to be a thing jmowreader Apr 2019 #5

One of my friends and contemporaries murielm99 Apr 2019 #7

Lots of white teen pregnancies that fueled the white adoption industry.That dried up rather abruptly Hekate Apr 2019 #10

Right. murielm99 May 2019 #17

I need to remember this. LiberalFighter Apr 2019 #14

If Roe Vs Wade is overturned it goes back to the States. Many States have now legalized abortion. Opel_Justwax Apr 2019 #4

I don't think the GOP wants it overturned either jmowreader Apr 2019 #6

That problem is twofold: one is that many states have pre-emptively banned abortion by... Hekate Apr 2019 #11

Re crossing state lines: it falls hardest on rural women, the poor, teens, the abused... Hekate Apr 2019 #12

I would love to agree with you, but DonCoquixote Apr 2019 #8

this is one of the saddest books I have ever read: musette_sf Apr 2019 #9

I call it "being forced to sacrifice one's firstborn on the altar of social shame." nt Hekate Apr 2019 #13

yes musette_sf Apr 2019 #15

k&r n/t orleans May 2019 #16