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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tja Henk,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ze namen het Down Under niet zo nauw met bepaalde mensenrechten. We wisten al dat Aboriginals nog steeds als tweederangs mensen behandeld worden, alhoewel hun situatie beter is dan 30 jaar geleden. Ook dit gedrag van de Roomse Kerk verbaast me niet. Er zal ook wel weer een beerput met misbruik opengaan (of valt dit artikel hier ook onder?).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Toch blijft het afgezien van dit soort zaken een mooi land al zijn de inwoners (“former covicts”) van een speciaal slag.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bovenstaande + dit artikel zal mij er niet van weerhouden om in september voor de 5<sup>e</sup> keer sinds 1993 naar dit land af te reizen..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ernst Debets/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Zaanstad<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Van:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> d66-bounces@tuxtown.net [mailto:d66-bounces@tuxtown.net] <b>Namens </b>Henk Elegeert<br><b>Verzonden:</b> maandag 25 juli 2011 18:31<br><b>Aan:</b> informele D66 discussielijst<br><b>Onderwerp:</b> [D66] Health care in Australia ... Catholic Church sorry for forced adoption<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:24.0pt'><a href="http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/catholic-church-sorry-for-forced-adoption-20110725-1hvzh.html"><b>Catholic Church sorry for forced adoption</b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Lisa Martin<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>July 25, 2011<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>AAP</span></strong><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-line-height-alt:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Her son grew up to be a man. What kind of man? Juliette Clough doesn't know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-line-height-alt:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>She was just 16 when she was forced to give up her baby boy at a Catholic-run hospital in Newcastle in 1970.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-line-height-alt:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"They just snatched away the baby," she said on Monday, adding at the time her ankles were strapped to the bed and she had been "gassed".<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"You weren't allowed to see him or touch him, anything like that, or hold him and it was just like a piece of my soul had died, and it's still dead."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Her son is now 42 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"I constantly think and imagine what his life would be like, whether he married and whether I have any grandchildren," Ms Clough said in a statement to a Senate inquiry into forced adoptions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Ms Clough is one of at least 150,000 Australian women who reportedly had their babies taken against their will by some churches and adoption agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>On Monday in Newcastle, the head of the healthcare arm of the Catholic Church apologised to the victims of forced adoption practices dating back 50 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>The apology follows an admission by Catholic Health Australia that "a small number" of church-run hospitals and women's homes maintained unwanted adoption practices from the 1950s to the 1970s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>CEO Martin Laverty said he is prepared to front a Senate inquiry to make an expression of sorrow and regret if such an apology brought healing and comfort to the women who had their newborns forcibly removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"It's with a deep sense of regret, a deep sense of sorrow that practices of the past have caused ongoing pain, suffering and grief to these women, these brave women in Newcastle but also women around Australia," Mr Laverty said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Mr Laverty said his organisation only became aware of the women's experiences in June.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"These practices of the past are no longer tolerated, nor by today's laws, and are deeply regrettable," he said in a submission to an upper house committee investigating the Commonwealth's contribution to former forced adoption policies and practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"We acknowledge the pain of separation and loss felt then and now for the mothers, fathers, children, families and others involved in the practices of the time."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"For the pain that arises from practices of the past, we are genuinely sorry."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>In some cases, the adoption practices had been "devastating and had ongoing impacts" on families.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Ms Clough said her life has been shattered since her baby was taken.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>She married later and gave birth again but the forced separation of her firstborn made it difficult to fully bond with her subsequent children.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Suffering deep depression, Ms Clough said she continued to find it difficult to be the mother "I wanted to and should have been."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Catholic Health Australia is prepared to support the setting up of a framework that would allow the victims of forced adoption to get access to personal medical or social work records to help contact lost family members.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>It would also support a fund for "remedying established wrongs"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Health care in Australia ... <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Zo hebben we hier ook jongerenbeleid overigens waarbij jongeren zelf 'gedwongen' (in de kerk) mee moeten zingen in wat de hobby van hun ouders zij .. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif"'>Henk Elegeert<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.6pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:12.75pt;vertical-align:baseline;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit'><span 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