In England a young pregnant woman, Fran Lyon, is going to have her baby taken away from her as soon as she gives birth -- simply because she has a psychiatric history. Her problems began when she was 14 and was raped. For the next three years she was in and out of psychiatric institutions. But when she was 18 she turned her life around and has seen been working with mental health charities and has been completely functional. Yet within 30 minutes of her baby's birth, it will be taken away from her and put into foster care, partly because of what social services says is a risk of Munchausen By Proxy. A liberal MP in Fran's corner says:

'What does Fran's case tell us? That no woman who has been raped or had mental health problems can be allowed to have a baby, even years later?

'What could be more traumatic than for a mother to have her baby taken away at birth? It's monstrous. That, in itself, can cause mental health problems, which is then used by social services against the mother as a reason not to return the baby. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Fran Lyon's website, Asking for a Chance