Child taken from womb by social services

[siobhanc92]

Exclusive: Essex social services have obtained a court order against a woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and for her child to be taken from her womb by caesarean section

A pregnant woman has had her baby forcibly removed by caesarean section by social workers.

Essex social services obtained a High Court order against the woman that

Comments

[mollybarton]

This is just pure evil.

[girly123]

...Someone please tell me that this isn't routine.

[kagehikario]

It's not. We have a vaguely similar case at work right now, and it is AWFUL, and people at various levels of care and government have said and half-suggested terrible things (I had a police officer comment that "These people need to be sterilized" to me on Friday and nearly lost my shit) but this situation is fairly uncommon, and this SPECIFIC reaction by social services is unheard of as far as I know.

What is terrifying is how many people in the care system would, apparently, take full advantage of this if it were an option...

[tweedisgood]

Oh for heavens' sake, of course they bloody don't (I spend much of my working day *defending* the rights of my [elderly] clients against the medical profession and, very often, their own relatives

[synekdokee]

Good old UK.

[little_rachael]

As a person with a mental illness, this is really scary to me.

[tabaqui]

I have never read anything more revolting and horrifying.