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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: OZschwitz policy that forced families apart Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:11 pm | |
| When Shirley Orr went into labour in 1970 her husband, Kevin, a surgeon, was seeing patients at his regular surgery.
He received a call from the obstetrician telling him everything was all right. Half an hour later the phone rang again and he was informed that the baby had Down syndrome.
Mr Orr, now 85, from Blakehurst said: ''Iain, our fifth child, was at birth taken from his mother. We wanted to see him but we didn't for three weeks. They would not let Shirley feed him as she had our other four children. It was quite peculiar.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/policy-that-forced-families-apart-20121020-27y0w.html#ixzz29sc5ab5Z
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