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Calls to ban birth alerts grow louder as other provinces end controversial practice


Posted: Feb 08, 2021 7:30 AM AT | Last Updated: February 8
There were 100 birth alerts issued in 2018-2019 and 95 in 2019-2020, according to the Department of Community Services.(CBC News)
Nova Scotia is one of the last provinces to still use a controversial practice known as birth alerts that has been widely condemned for targeting Indigenous and other racialized women.
A birth alert is when child welfare services notifies a hospital that they believe an expectant mother is high risk and that a newborn baby may need protection. It can lead to the baby being seized without the mother s consent.
I have seen young families torn apart, and it has taken years and years and years to get back their children and sometimes they never do, Pam Glode-Desrochers, executive director of the Mi kmaw Native Friendship Centre, told CBC s ....

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