Child taken from womb by social services
Have you seen this?
Officials have forcefully taken a woman’s baby from HER WOMB because she suffered a mental breakdown!!
EXCUSE ME?! Can they do that? Because of a mental illness? You’ve got to be shitting me?
If you don’t want to read it all, here is a snippet:
“The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is an Italian national who come to Britain in July last year to attend a training course with an airline at Stansted Airport in Essex.
She suffered a panic attack, which her relations believe was due to her failure to take regular medication for an existing bipolar condition.
She called the police, who became concerned for her well-being and took her to a hospital, which she then realised was a psychiatric facility.
She has told her lawyers that when she said she wanted to return to her hotel, she was restrained and sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Meanwhile, Essex social services obtained a High Court order in August 2012 for the birth “to be enforced by way of caesarean section”, according to legal documents seen by this newspaper.
The woman, who says she was kept in the dark about the proceedings, says that after five weeks in the ward she was forcibly sedated. When she woke up she was told that the child had been delivered by C-section and taken into care.”
Bipolar, Unemployed & Lost 
So horrible.
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I read this not too long ago and was extremely angry… as a woman who is both bipolar and pregnant. Apparently only a decade ago, we were told to not have kids.
What upset me was that she only had a panic attack. She wasn’t manic, she wasn’t debilitatingly depressed and considering suicide… she was travelling for business and got overwhelmed. What is even worse is that most bipolar medication doesn’t have anything to do with anxiety, just mood regulation… so, she could very well have been keeping up on her medication and missed her anxiety medications or not have been taking anxiety medication at all. The missed medication was just speculation by her family.
So, because of the disgusting stigma put on people like ourselves, this woman woke up without her child. The baby is now a year and a half and she still doesn’t have her back.
This shouldn’t have been allowed. Under any circumstances. If she was in a crisis mode, the worst they should have done was hold her, keep her under their care And observation and if she proved to be a threat to her child, then considered child protective services involvement… But, I highly doubt that would have been necessary.
I know I’ve been ranting, but one last thing. She was travelling to a different country… why couldn’t they send the child home to family. None of her family was even contacted. How it’s gotten this far is beyond me.
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Exactly what I wanted to say. Word for word. All this for a nervous breakdown? If she were manic they would’ve probably killer her, or worse, lobotomized her.
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