Cinco trechos de uma resenha recente da New York Review of Books me chamaram a atenção:
1.
Uma descrição do que eu suponho que nós poderíamos chamar de “os bons tempos de acordo com a Igreja
Católica":
“In an era when reliable birth control
was unavailable and abortion was unsafe and illegal, hundreds of newborns were
abandoned each year in New York City. Babies turned up in parks and alleyways
or on the doorsteps of fashionable houses. These foundlings were assumed to be
illegitimate and until 1870 weren’t even welcome at Catholic charity
orphanages. Most ended up in squalid municipal almshouses with the paupers,
drunks, and insane; nearly all of them died."
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