Baby Forcibly Removed From Woman’s Womb By Essex Social Services
” A pregnant woman has had her baby forcibly removed by caesarean section by social workers, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
Essex social services obtained a High Court order against the woman. The order meant that she could be forcibly sedated and the child removed from her womb.
The council thought it was acting in the best interests of the woman, an Italian who was in Britain on a two-week training course last year, because she had suffered a mental breakdown.
Brendan Fleming, the woman’s British lawyer, told The Sunday Telegraph: “I have never heard of anything like this in all my 40 years in the job.
” I can understand if someone is very ill that they may not be able to consent to a medical procedure, but a forced caesarean is unprecedented.”
The baby girl, now 15 months old, is still in the care of social services, which are refusing to return her to the mother, who claims she has made a full recovery.
The case has developed into an international legal row, with lawyers for the woman questioning why her family was not consulted beforehand and also why no efforts were made to involve Italian social services, which would be better placed to look after the child.”
What can we say about this ? Where exactly does the State’s “rights” end ? The woman was not even a UK citizen but still the authorities assumed their “right” to know what was best for her and her baby ? Unbelievable .
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