We abandon pregnant women in crisis until it becomes life or death

That a premature baby was delivered by caesarian section because of concerns for the mother’s mental health has staggering implications for this society, writes Victoria White.

I can barely believe that a child would be taken by the State from the life-giving environment of the womb and put in an incubator at 25 weeks’ gestation.

Friends who had premature babies at 30 weeks, or a little later, speak of desperately “hanging onto” their babies in the womb, because every day counted. One friend speaks of going to bed every night saying: “This was a good day, because the baby wasn’t born.”