Women Should Never Give Birth in Shackles

Click to expand Image A woman in Australia. © 2008 Getty Images An incarcerated Indigenous woman was reportedly shackled during a hospital stay earlier this month to deliver her baby by caesarean section in a Queensland hospital in Australia. Queensland Corrective Services promised an internal review but did not confirm the shackling. Shackling a woman during childbirth contravenes international human rights standards. The incident happened days before Australia’s two major political parties blo