{"id":2692,"date":"2013-12-02T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2013-12-04T21:56:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T20:56:40","slug":"some-stories-if-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2013\/12\/02\/some-stories-if-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Some stories, if true,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/social-services-forcibly-remove-unborn-child-from-woman-by-caesarean-after-she-suffered-mental-health-breakdown-8975808.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">just don&#8217;t need additional comment<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Italian woman was sedated and her baby delivered against her will, after Essex social services obtained a court order in August 2012 for the birth \u201cto be enforced by way of caesarean section\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After the C-section, the woman, who has two other children and is divorced, was sent back to Italy without her daughter. She returned to Britain in February to request the return of her daughter, who is now 15 months old, but was told at Chelmsford Crown Court that she was to be put up for adoption\u00a0in case her mother suffered a relapse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Essex CC has a statement <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.essex.gov.uk\/News\/Pages\/Essex-County-Council-responses-to-interest-in-story-headlined-Essex-removes-baby-from-mother.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>. \u00a0Thanks to Nathan Emmerich for the pointer via twitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 2:\u00a0<\/strong>There&#8217;s a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinktape.co.uk\/cases\/never-let-the-facts-get-in-the-way-of-a-good-story-eh\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">really good analysis at Pink Tape<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 3:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/Misc\/2013\/20.html\">The judgement a<\/a>bout adoption<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 4:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judiciary.gov.uk\/Resources\/JCO\/Documents\/Judgments\/re-aa-approved-judgment.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">And the judgement about the caesarian<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just don&#8217;t need additional comment: The Italian woman was sedated and her baby delivered against her will, after Essex social services obtained a court order in August 2012 for the birth \u201cto be enforced by way of caesarean section\u201d. 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