‘I didn’t give him up, he was taken’: Horrifying BBC documentary Stolen Babies shows how the forced adoption scandal is ‘like The Handmaid’s Tale’

Marion McMillan, Julia Macklin, Ann Keen, Judy Baker. MIDDLE: Marion with her son, Joan Chambers, Marion McMillan, Judy Baker. BOTTOM: Julia, Joan, Ann, Judy, and Marion's baby boy.

As the BBC's horrifying exposé of the forced adoption scandal instantly lets viewers know, between 1949 and 1976, 250,000 unmarried mothers in the UK were forced to have their babies adopted.

Stolen Babies airs on September 2 on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, and the 90 minute film uncovers the true extent of the cruelty women and girls faced, just for becoming pregnant out of wedlock.