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Government banned sending pregnant women to Bessborough in 1945

Government banned sending pregnant women to Bessborough in 1945

A government minister ordered that no pregnant women be sent to Bessborough mother-and-baby home nearly 70 years ago.

Tue, 26 Aug, 2014