Italian Woman Fighting for Baby that was Forcibly Stolen from Her Womb by British Authorities
Times of India
December 2, 2013
British social services forcibly removed a baby from a pregnant Italian woman’s womb by caesarean section while she was in the country on a work trip, a report said.
The woman was sedated and then had the girl taken out of her body after authorities in Essex, eastern England, obtained a court order, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said on Saturday citing her lawyers. The authorities said the woman had had a mental breakdown and it acted in the best interests of the child, which is now 15 months old, the paper said.
The Italian mother has now launched a legal battle for the child, which is being put up for adoption by the social services, it said.
The woman had flown into Britain in 2012 for a two-week Ryanair training course at Stansted airport north of London when she suffered a panic attack, which her family believe was due to her failure to take medicine for a bipolar condition, the paper said.