From Australia to Spain, Ireland to America, and as recent as 1987, young mothers were "coerced", "manipulated", and even drugged into handing over their babies for adoption. These women say sometimes their parents forged consent documents, but more often they say these forced adoptions were coordinated by the people their families trusted most...priests, nuns, social workers, nurses or doctors who were all in this organized crime scheme in catholic hospitals and catholic mother baby homes. Nuns got away with using illegal and unethical tactics used to convince young, unmarried mothers to surrender their babies to adoptive homes from the late 1800s and well into the 1990s. In some cases, mothers were drugged and forced to sign papers relinquishing custody - others were promised to be able to see their child if they regretted their decision - which was a lie. In others, women were told their children had died. Single mothers also did not have access to the financial support given to widows or abandoned wives, and many were told by the Sisters of mercy and the social workers they worked with that they were unfit to raise a child. This year, a prominent Canadian law firm announced that it would file a class-action lawsuit against Quebec's Catholic Church accusing the Church of kidnapping, fraud and coercion to force unwed mothers to give up their children for adoption - just like they have done in Spain, Australia, and Ireland. Anne Petrie is a Canadian author that shines a ...