MP to raise case after social workers take baby in forced C-section

A British MP is to raise in Parliament the case of a pregnant Italian woman whose baby was reportedly forcibly removed by Caesarean section in Britain by order of social workers.

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, according to The Sunday Telegraph.

The council said it was acting in the best interests of the woman, who was in Britain for work reasons, because she had suffered a mental breakdown, the newspaper reported.