Philomena urges forced adoption victims in Britain to speak out



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The Philomena Project calls on the Irish Government to work with the Supreme Court to reverse a 1998 ruling that adoptees do not always have the right to know the identity of their natural parents.

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The law currently prevents both parties from being given any information that could be used to identify one another, Ms Lohan claims.

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The lives of vast numbers of those women have been “ruined”, Ms Lohan added.

“You can identify these women at 30 paces,” she told The Irish Post. “There is a frailty and a vulnerability about them because what happened to them has turned them into shadows of themselves.”

Among the many people who have contacted the organisation since the release of Philomena are some who claim they were given no choice about giving up their child for adoption.

“I am aware of a case from the 1970s where a woman in her 20s was locked in a room with a solicitor, a social worker and a nun who all shouted at her and said she could not leave the room until she had signed the papers to hand over custody of her child,” Ms Lohan said.

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