If the woman does not want to terminate her pregnancy, and if a baby is born, that child should probably get a free ride to Harvard on the State of Illinois.
Because of this hard reality, there will certainly be people who will try to convince any pregnant "patient" on an IDHS plantation to get an abortion. And they'll certainly look for a scapegoat for the abuse and/or neglect which is incontrovertible. The first impulse will be to prevent anyone from finding out. The second impulse will be to blame the two "patients," who will be restricted and mercilessly persecuted to the fullest extent of rules and regulations. And the third impulse will be to isolate administrative higher-ups from blame by focusing it all on the most junior staff down on the clinical unit. This last gets very complicated, and things tend to fall apart.
It is happening right now at Packard Mental Health Center in Springfield. It has probably happened many times before at Packard, Elgin, Chicago Read, Madden, Alton and/or Choate. It won't happen at Chester, only because there are no female "patients" to get pregnant there. There might be graves and secret records at some of these places. It might be uncovered and go public soon as a very ugly story.
If a female patient is told, by her psychiatrist or social worker, or by anyone, "The baby is only going to be in DCFS custody anyway, so you should terminate," that is more (mental/emotional) abuse. And it can get worse. If the female patient is put in danger from other, perhaps unstable or violent, patients, or if she is medically or nutritionally neglected and loses the baby because of that, some people might call it murder or conspiracy to murder an unborn child.
The taxpayers of Illinois have a right to find out how often this has happened, why it happens, and what should be done about it. It ruins mental health.
I know one likely "expert" to ask: Dr. Cash.
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