"Essex social services obtained a High Court order against the woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and her child to be taken from her womb.
The council said it was acting in the best interests of the woman, an Italian who was in Britain on a work trip, because she had suffered a mental breakdown.The baby girl, now 15 months old, is still in the care of social services, who are refusing to give her back to the mother, even though she claims to have made a full recovery.
The case has developed into an international legal row, with lawyers for the woman describing it as “unprecedented”."I don't know how any mother would ever get over that.
"I worry about the way these decisions about a person’s mental capacity are being taken without any apparent concern as to the effect on the individual being affected."At least somebody's rational and compassionate.
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