"Despite the woman’s mother explaining her daughter’s condition to police over the telephone from Italy, she was taken to a psychiatric hospital and sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Five weeks later, her daughter was removed from her womb without her consent."

Right, because she was not capable of giving consent. The doctors looking after her decided that it would be best.

Hell if you bother to read even slightly then it's wholly reasonable: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1049605...

If only people on HN could be downvoted for being completely and arguably wilfully ignorant about what they comment on.

> If only people on HN could be downvoted for being completely and arguably wilfully ignorant about what they comment on.

I'm new to HN, so I recently had a good look at the rules governing it. They are a bit more complex than your average site, and bound to cause a bit of controversy.

In the HN FAQ:

> There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold.

I recently posted a comment regarding some hybrid C/C++ code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949474

A comment of mine was downvoted, which I was a bit surprised at, then was upvoted when other hackers responded to it. To be fair the comment lacked sufficient information, which I corrected with a follow up. I'm thinking that the hacker who downvoted it doesn't know that much C, so I am not that really that bothered about it.

troll

Read the goddamn reports. You're wrong. You have no idea what you're talking about.

"No they didn't. The doctors made the request which you'd know if you bothered to read more than a few lines."

Hang on! No they didn't --what--?

Yes, they did. The woman had had two previous children this way and so they judged that it was much more preferable than to risk a breech and the health or life of both the baby and mother.

How hard is it to do trivial research?

This is retarded. The decision was made 5 weeks before c-section, they could have send her home before that. What will be next? 'Voluntary' kidney donations while changing flights?

- there were other relatives who had rights and could take care of the baby.

- she was held for 5 weeks in the hospital before the baby was delivered, than deported!

- And on top of that there is gagging court order, so she could not ask for help, otherwise she would lose all chances to get baby back.

Also there are other similar cases.