Waiting: Fran Lyon has named her baby Molly Waiting: Fran Lyon has named her baby MollyAll this fun can be yours via Universal Health Care from your Uncle Sam.
“...became involved with social services in July after a domestic incident involving her former partner.”
July huh? I wonder if the argument began with her partner saying something like “You’re pregnant? How could you get pregnant....? Well - you’ll just have to get an abortion then!”
WTF.
W T F.
It really depends what her history is. This sounds like a case of “more to the story”. Just how much “self harming” did she engage in? How recently? How have things gone in the various mental hospitals she’s been treated at? What was that domestic incident with her former partner all about? Is he the father? Is he crazy and violent? Is she yearning to get back together with him anyway?
However, it should be pointed out that the media rarely goes against the government when it's doing things "for the children." And it is especially heartless to send a bland form letter, they called it a "birth plan" (O_o), informing her that the government is only going to give her 15 minutes with her child before they take it away, presumably forever, or for several months, which for a newborn infant is just about as good as forever. Even it is necessary, there are better ways to inform her than a nice crisp sheet of A5 with government letterhead. PS: I know I've got my choler up over this, but please don't take this as an attack on you. You're being perfectly reasonable in suspecting the media of highlighting this for its sensationalism value. :)
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My ancestors are from the British Isles back ten generations but what is common in Socialist Great Brittan doesn't have the same scandal factor that it would in the USA.
Wait a minute - I’m confused. She NAMED her “fetus” already?
I thought it wasn’t a baby or a human until “the parasite” was separated from its “host” body...
[do I really need a /s?]
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