MPs to demand apology for forced adoptions in UK

Commons debate to recognise suffering caused by practice from 1960s onwards

The government must apologise to women who were pressured into handing over babies for adoption half a century ago, MPs will demand in a three-hour debate in the Commons on Thursday.

A motion tabled by a group of cross-party backbench MPs calls for recognition for the “pain and suffering that the practice of forced adoption caused many women from the 1960s onwards”. It says the government must issue an apology for the policies and practices behind it.

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