What is wrong over there? The Brits just put up with this crap as though it is normal.
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If the physician who made this recommendation “could not attend the hearing” as the article states, then I suggest there is not case.
THE SOLUTION: Mom, cross the channel or go to a non-EU country. Give birth there. (Glorious socialized medicine is not just cradle to grave, it is now pre-birth to grave.)
Is there a husband? I don't see a sign of one. In some cases, are these loony fascist policies used as a backhanded effort to eliminate a source of genuine scandal, such as a woman raising a bastard?
In other words, since political correctness no doubt forbids the state from making the obvious statement that this woman is not a fit mother because she's unmarried, do bureaucrats pull out these bizarre theories to achieve a result less disorderly to society?
Of course, the very intrusiveness of these idiots destroys all social order by arrogating authority over family matters to social workers, making fathers irrelevant. But I wonder if some of these "1984" measures are a pathetic work-around to avoid some of the consequences of their socialist family law policies.
Looks like we’re heading there, too.
John Edwards’ Universal Health Care Plan Would Make Regular Checkups Mandatory
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890471/posts
I could see this kind of scenario from Edward’s health care plan
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From then on, anyone discussing the case, including Miss Lyon, will be deemed to be in contempt of the court.
What a racket. This is kidnapping the baby, plain and simple.
This is so absurd. Threatening to take away some mother's baby because she might engage in a made up behavior.
This crap happens here, folks. A friend of mine went through it in the ‘80s. Her husband had left her and her 14-yr-old son was running away and getting snared by Child Protective Services on a regular basis. She had no drug or alcohol problems, no criminal record, and her baby was not born out of wedlock. Yet before she ever laid eyes on the newborn, the hospital had conferred with social services (because of the boy, who was in foster care) and the hospital started proceedings to take the baby from her. According to the paperwork she showed me, the reason was “child abuse.” Of a child she had delivered just hours before, and never seen. In the fine print it said the doctors had reason to believe she would abuse the child. No reason was given. No psychiatric exam was ever done. She had absolutely no history of any criminal behavior or abuse, by her or to her. Just a shiftless husband and a son determined to find his dad.
It took a team of lawyers to get the hospital to back off. They wanted to discharge her and keep the baby. To this day I suspect they had financial motives to take a healthy newborn from an innocent mother. (She was destitute, I had paid all her expenses, but they seemed surprised and dismayed when the pricey lawyers entered the picture, like they had expected her to be defenseless.)
There’s a market for healthy babies. The scum who engage in this trade, generally do not call themselves scum. They present themselves as humanitarians, selfless and pure of heart.
Maybe she should abort the baby.