>>Not commenting on anesthesia, but there was/is a significant scandal in Canada about forced adoptions, apparently elsewhere as well:
Sure.
The hurdle we face, is to consider societal expectations when these things happened rather than applying today's morality.
By way of example, rape inside marriage was legal in Canada until the 1980s- well within living memory for many of us. That is an example of the societal milieu in which things happened. We can be grateful that societal attitudes have changed a lot and while it's proper for the healing of victims to go back and review, it turns sour when people try to target and blame subsections of society as if everybody else was behaving to today's standards.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
