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The Doc Option: Before ‘Philomena’ Watch ‘A Girl Like Her’
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The Doc Option: Before ‘Philomena’ Watch ‘A Girl Like Her’

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Christopher Campbell
Nov 27, 2013
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In the United States alone during the 1950s and 1960s, more than one-and-a-half-million women and girls were forced to give their babies up for adoption. This was part of a larger trend that ran throughout Western countries during that time. It was supposed to be a period of prosperity and contentment, and unwanted pregnancies clashed with that image. A…

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