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Pregnant woman granted exemption to travel to Canada and visit dying mother bumped off flight home to Canberra – ABC News
When Bobbie Dawson was granted an exemption to visit her dying mother in Canada, she planned the trip “to be as safe and manageable” as possible, taking into account her pregnancy and COVID-19 restrictions. But everything fell apart when she was bumped from h…
At 32 weeks pregnant with her first baby, Bobbie Dawson readied herself to board a flight to Canada to visit her mother, who was being transferred to palliative care.
It was not a trip she was looking forward to undertaking, but the Canberra-based resident had been granted exemption from the Australian Government on compassionate grounds to make the journey.
“It was obviously a difficult decision…
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