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by scdoshi 3382 days ago
The article describes a hypothetical scenario.

It's clear if you read carefully and pay attention to the dates, but this is the kind of thing that seeds fake news and forwards. Disappointed that shock value and clickbaity titles are being used by a rights advocate group.

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> It’s January 2018 and after enjoying a meal with her family

I did not realize that either until I read the comments. That is some over-dramatic click-baity bullshit.

Yes, it's fiction, but it seems to me to be a reasonable extrapolation from legislation that is moving through the UK parliament right now.
>this is the kind of thing that seeds fake news and forwards

One could argue that careless readers are "that kind of thing", more so than anything else.