The Catholic Church standing against abortions, contraceptives and single mothers is the ultimate holy trinity of misogyny.

Up until 1996, “across Ireland, ‘fallen women’ — unmarried mothers, prostitutes, or women thought at risk of promiscuity — were imprisoned in laundries, stripped of their names and freedoms, and forced to engage in exhausting, unpaid work.” https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2019/09/fate-irelands-prisons-fallen-women-exposing-painful-history

“For more than two centuries, women in Ireland were sent to institutions like Donnybrook as a punishment for having sex outside of marriage. Unwed mothers, flirtatious women and others deemed unfit for society were forced to labor under the strict supervision of Catholic nuns—“

“—for months or years, sometimes even for life. The cemetery at Donnybrook was no ordinary resting place: It was a mass grave. Inside were the bodies of scores of unknown women: the undocumented, uncared-about inmates of one of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries—“

“—Their lives—and later their deaths—had been shrouded in secrecy. When the mass grave at Donnybrook was discovered, the 155 unmarked tombs touched off a scandal that exposed the extent and horrors of the Magdalene laundries—“

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/magdalene-laundry-ireland-asylum-abuse

Guys, this was happening in the 90s. If you understand the relationship between the end of slavery in America and present-Day white supremacy and racial inequality, you should definitely understand that this history is as scary as it is recent.

Ireland is too far. In our locality, single mothers in the Catholic Church are still being treated like outcasts. Some priests refuse to baptise their kids and sometimes extend this unfair treatment to the parents and family of the unwed mother.

I don’t think this is foreign to anyone who has been paying enough attention. I’m not going to delve into the attitude of the Church towards abortions and contraceptives; it’s no news. My focus is on the people who claim that their treatment of single mothers is a gone culture.