'We were given one choice: Surrender your baby'

More than a million American women who got pregnant out of wedlock were forced into maternity homes where they ‘surrendered’ their babies who were later put up for adoption, it has been reported.

Before the landmark Roe v Wade case legalized abortion in America, many young, middle-class white women were sent to places like the Florence Crittendon Home in Washington, D.C.

More >> 'We were given one choice: Surrender your baby': Women recall the horrors of maternity homes where they were subject to 'mind control' and kept in a 'shame-filled prison' for conceiving out of wedlock