I read this article this morning and was literally speechless. That poor woman, as if it wasn't bad enough to be pregnant and unwell in a foreign country, social services then decide to cut the child out of her without her permission or even telling her?? And now they want to put the child up for adoption? In the UK? Why isn't the child sent home to Italy? Ugh, I'm so angry.
There's been quite a few stories in the Irish media over the last year or two about British women turning up at Irish maternity hospitals in the last days of their pregnancies/already in labour in order to avoid social services in the UK taking their children when they're born. I didn't have that much sympathy for them, but if this is what they're dealing with at home, my opinion has changed. Unbelievable, Orwellian carry on.
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