The home, which was run by an order of Catholic nuns and closed in 1961, was one of many such institutions that housed tens of thousands of orphans and unmarried pregnant women who were forced to give up their children throughout much of the 20th century.

In 2014, historian Catherine Corless tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam between the 1920s and 1961 — but could only find a burial record for one child.

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    13 hours ago

    This is the second time this week I’ve seen this argument:

    • Religion has historically done X
    • religion is bad
    • why do you care about X, that’s religious!

    (The last one was about marriage)

    I suspect that you’re a religious person making a slippery slope fallacy.

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      2 hours ago

      slippery slope fallacy

      Did you just randomly select some fallacy from a list in an attempt to sound clever?