Mothers affected by forced adoption policies call for royal commission into medical professionals

Forced Adoptions: Mothers want medics investigated

Updated 28 Jul 2015, 7:09am

Mothers affected by the forced adoption policies of 1960s and 70s are calling for an investigation into the medical profession and what they say were illegal and heinous practices. Individual states apologised ahead of Julia Gillard’s national apology in 2013 but mothers are angry that since then there’s been silence. They say a Royal Commission,

To engage with the community, service providers and governments to promote and enhance education on validation of our motherhood – late 1950’s – early 1970’s - new modern medical outlook policies relating to young unmarried pregnant girls introduced in Victoria May 1958.
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Interview held at Parliament House after the Senate Report of the Inquiry into the Commonwealths role in Former Forced Adoption Policies and Practices, and was handed down. Peter cries with Max as Max discovers the possibility that his mother may have LOVED him, after reading a newspaper report stating many mother's had their baby illegally removed against their will.