Activists on forced adoption say story is a global one, and still needs telling. When Valerie Andrews heard an interview last year on the CBC, Canada’s state broadcaster, with Irish adoption campaigner Philomena Lee, she thought “great, but why don’t you give us some airtime?”
“We
are here, we are the Canadian Philomenas,” says Andrews, who has been
fighting for years to have the story of Canada’s mother-and-baby homes
unearthed and acknowledged.