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Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009): Mary O'Rourke: ...a bearing on our debate. Before I do so, however, I wish to discuss the Ryan report's chapters, which were particularly horrifying and distasteful. Women were incarcerated as forced labour in the Magdalene laundries. What was their sin? They became pregnant and had a child. That was their sin. Can one imagine the situation? Women who perhaps had very deprived childhoods and found a...

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