A young mother who was on Manitoba‘s birth alert system is running calls from advocates, researchers and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls demanding that the province stop taking babies from mothers at birth.
A birth alerts is an alert that flags a person’s history and apprehends children at birth. Manitoba apprehends an average of one baby a day right after childbirth.
That is insane.
One of the recommendations of the Inquiry us that this stop.
For further information, please read the linked article:
’It’s torturous’: Young mother joins calls from MMIWG advocates to stop apprehensions at birth https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/mmiwg-inquiry-birth-apprehensions-1.5164080
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