“You are not welcome with your baby in the parliament’s chamber.'
People shop in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Jan. 3. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Reporter covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 20 at 8:23 AM Danish lawmaker Mette Abildgaard brought her baby to Parliament on Tuesday — and was surprised when the speaker, Pia Kjaersgaard, asked her to take her daughter out.
Through an assistant, the speaker apparently passed Abildgaard a note, which read, “You are not welcome with your baby in the parliament’s chamber.” Denmark is hardly the only country grappling with such questions. A German legislator was removed from a state parliament with her 6-week-old last August. “I always thought that we were past that point,” the legislator, Madeleine Henfling, said. “I don’t understand what the problem is.” In 2017, a Japanese city councilwoman was kicked out for bringing her baby to work.
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