Friday, November 13, 2009

Fat mothers to be banned from hospital

Subject: txt 1st hcare bdd vals lbrty -
A hospital has banned fat women from giving birth at its maternity ward. Mothers-to-be who have a body mass index (BMI) of over 34, the equivalent of an average woman of 5ft 6ins weighing 15 stone, will be turned away from Weston General Hospital, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Instead patients will have to travel 20 miles to the nearest full-facilitated maternity unit at St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol.

[Think this could happen in the private sector? Only empowered governments can discriminate like this - better not to empower them.]

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