AUSTRALIA
The Catholic Leader
Published: 11 March 2012
By: Paul Dobbyn
LAST year’s apology by Catholic Health Australia to single mothers, forced to adopt out their children over decades from the 1950s, still stands for all Catholic hospitals in the health care network, in the light of recent publicity on the issue.
It is expected no further apologies will be made.
CHA chief executive officer Martin Laverty in July issued an apology to those “who carry broken hearts as a result of the role that some Catholic organisations played in this widespread, common public policy practice of years past”.
The apology was issued during a Senate inquiry into past adoption practices in government and non-government institutions over three decades.
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