Action | Amend Minimum Standards for Jails and Lockups to add requirements on restraint of pregnant offenders |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 2/29/2012 |
As an adoptive parent I have never delivered a baby, but the thought of anyone doing it in shackles sound barbaric to me.
I also believe that the baby is picking up the mother's attitude prior to birth, and it seems that the discomfort might be passed on to the baby at a critical time. (For example there are studies correlating grief and loss during the mother's pregnancy with life long depression in people).
Please reconsider this practice.