Ban the detention of pregnant women | Letter
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Emma Ginn, the director of Medical Justice, warns that women in immigration detention receive inadequate healthcare
You report how a pregnant rape survivor experiencing a miscarriage and barely able to stand was unlawfully held in immigration detention which amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment (Home Office pays 50,000 to trafficked woman detained during miscarriage, 20 August).
This case show precisely why the Home Office must heed our advice and that of the medical profession, and actually ban the detention of pregnant women.
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