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Mother forced to give birth alone in toilet of 'flagship' NHS hospital (Democrat Party HealthCare)
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 18th August 2007 | ANDREW LEVY

Posted on 08/21/2007 1:43:32 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember

A young mother had to deliver her own baby in the lavatory of a flagship hospital because there were no trained midwives available.

Surveyor Catherine Brown had made the agonising decision to undergo a chemically-induced abortion after being told her 18-week pregnancy was risking her life.

But when the time came to give birth she was on an ear, nose and throat ward and had only her mother to help her through the ordeal. Her premature son Edward died in her arms minutes later.

The traumatised mother-of-one said: "I just howled and howled. I remember sitting there looking at him and thinking, 'What do I do next?'. I just sat there on the toilet looking at my dead baby.

"It was dreadful - a terrible nightmare. Then I started crying my eyes out and repeating, 'I'm sorry baby, I'm so sorry'. I still can't believe the hospital had no trained staff who could help me."

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: healthcare; hillary; hillarycare; socializedmedicine; universalehealth; universalhealthcare
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The democrat party's precise plans for you and your loved ones.
1 posted on 08/21/2007 1:43:34 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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2 posted on 08/21/2007 1:45:12 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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The “Flagship” is presumably the “Titanic”.


3 posted on 08/21/2007 1:49:55 AM PDT by Vanders9
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Well she decided to chemically abort it and the “delivery” was the result. I don’t call that “giving birth”, even if she was told to abort it for her own health reasons.

Not to say that she should have had to do it alone!


4 posted on 08/21/2007 1:51:46 AM PDT by lawgirl (She comes on like thunder and she's more right than rain)
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One major difference between the US and the rest of the world is that our nation does everything to save premature babies, and allow them to go to delivery, etc. This results ultimately in an artificially higher infant mortality rates.

An example of this is the recent birth of Canadian Quadruplets in the USA, since there are no adequate functioning intensive care for premies even in Canada’s wealthier provinces.

This baby would be more likely to be alive in the US. In the UK, this baby and mom were put in servere harm’s way by total neglect. The mom in fact was essentially coerced into a nightmare unnecessary pregnancy termination.


5 posted on 08/21/2007 1:52:20 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: lawgirl

You point is well taken, but see post 5.


6 posted on 08/21/2007 1:54:01 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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bttt


7 posted on 08/21/2007 2:05:43 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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Posted here with photos and 133 comments:

Mother forced to give birth alone in toilet of 'flagship' NHS hospital (U.K.)

8 posted on 08/21/2007 2:10:32 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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Soon coming to a hospital near you, via HillaryCare.
9 posted on 08/21/2007 2:36:15 AM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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Mother forced to give birth alone in toilet of ‘flagship’ NHS hospital (Democrat Party HealthCare) - previously posted....but.....

still the plan that the piaps will bring to a healthcare plan...coming to you soon!!!


10 posted on 08/21/2007 3:27:00 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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You’ll never grow old, with Hillary-Care.


11 posted on 08/21/2007 3:36:31 AM PDT by CDFingers (REALM: (Republican Ethnic Americans Living in Massachusetts))
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If the state is footing the bill, there is no way they are going to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars required to maintain the life of a premature infant. This story may be bad PR for a day, but from the state’s point of view, they saved a heck of a lot of money.


12 posted on 08/21/2007 4:00:25 AM PDT by gridlock (Getting drunk can make you only so stupid without being pretty stupid to start with.)
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You’ll never grow old, with Hillary-Care.

Beautiful. I think I'll steal it!

13 posted on 08/21/2007 4:01:30 AM PDT by gridlock (You’ll never grow old with Hillary-Care.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Ah, but it was free.


14 posted on 08/21/2007 4:08:03 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: lawgirl

I was thinking just like you.

This thing about a mother’s “health”, well that’s their code word for....”anybody, anytime”.

What possible danger to a healthy young woman’s life can carrying a foetus, in this case at what....18 weeks?

Anything is possible, I know...but what are the odds?


15 posted on 08/21/2007 4:33:55 AM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)
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The libs will ram this, too, down your throat one millimeter at a time until the likes of you have been sold.


16 posted on 08/21/2007 4:43:18 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (If General Patton was alive, he would slap many faces!!)
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Welcome to the nanny state, where Hillary would at leaset “care” for you.


17 posted on 08/21/2007 4:45:01 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (If General Patton was alive, he would slap many faces!!)
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In Britain you must call ahead to the emergency room to see if they can fit you and your emergency in.

I read the Daily Mail pretty regularly and the medical fiasco’s are unconscionable.


18 posted on 08/21/2007 5:06:04 AM PDT by Dudoight
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She was apparently hemorrhaging before she was admitted.
19 posted on 08/21/2007 5:19:09 AM PDT by Don W (I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.)
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She didn’t give birth. This was an abortion which the child survived for a few moments in an incompetent hospital.


20 posted on 08/21/2007 5:57:46 AM PDT by George W. Bush (Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
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