Teenage Battle with E.D. is Enough to Lose Your Baby
At least according to some British social workers. I understand that they’ve got to keep the baby’s interests in mind, but with five to ten percent of British women 14 to 24 suffering from an ED (and many self-harming on top of that), a significant number of women would be losing their babies.
Not to mention that Fran, the woman mentioned in the article, is currently ED-free, so her eating disorder won’t be endangering her or the fetus, and that even if she did relapse (though of course I hope she won’t), self-harm disorders are just that — self harm, and sufferers rarely abuse others. I hope that the social workers decide to look at her strength in overcoming her rape 10 years ago rather than the “weakness” they insist she has.
November 28th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
As someone who is a survivor of an eating disorder this disgusts me. I mean, I personally think that no woman should lose her child due to an issue she had in the past.