Posted on 05/09/2007 8:00:08 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
An Irish teenager who has fought an ongoing battle to come to Britain for an abortion has been granted permission to travel by the High Court in Dublin.
The unnamed 17-year-old, known only as "Miss D" who is four months' pregnant, had previously been denied the right to leave the country by Ireland's Health Service Executive, which had the girl in its care.
The authorities pledged to call the police and stop the teenager from undergoing the operation, so the girl went to the High Court in the hope of being granted permission to travel.
The unborn child has a condition meaning a major part of the brain, scalp and skull is missing and is only expected to survive for a few days after birth.
Opening the case, Eoghan Fitzsimons SC, for Miss D, told the court that it seems "to be most inhumane" to expect her to carry her baby full term.
Mr Fitzsimons told the court that if Miss D was not in the care of the HSE and her parents supported her decision for abortion, there was nothing to stop her travelling.
Is this anencephaly associated with drug or alcohol use?
I am sorry about your friend but she's already dead in all the ways that count. Life is more than just keeping the brain oxygenated.
No. It is a neural tube defect. Like spina bifada. Nobody knows what causes it or how to prevent it, though folic acid intake is known to minimize (not stop) risk.
Maternal epilepsy and diabetes increase the risk of neural tube defects.
>>Is this anencephaly associated with drug or alcohol use?<<
Family history and lack of folic acid give the highest risks.
My sister’s Grandmother-in-law used to tell a story about the time that she was pregnant and carried a trunk up to the attic. When she had the baby (back in the old country) she realized that she had crushed the baby’s skull.
It wasn’t until my sister had her baby that they put two and two together.
Back when I was young, every illegal abortion I was personally aware of was at the insistence of husband, boyfriend or parent, who did not want to bear the cost of supporting the child. A case in point was the daughter of our local school superintendent who was taken by her parents across the state line to a family practice physician who did this as an out-patient procedure all the time. As it happened, infection occured as it very often did in many cases, the girl got a staph infaction, nearly died and was left infertile. Of course in those days there were still many children to adopt and she was able to have a child after she got married. Thed alternative to the abortion would have been to take her to Edna Gladney, but the world would have got out and the Superintendent would have lost his job. For the illegal child. As it was, word of the abortion did get out, but the fallout did not extend beyond bridgeclub gossip.
So we should just kill her? It would be very easy, but that would treating her like a dog, right?
This child’s life support is its mother. Remove (kill) her?
Dude, your weird.
You should be careful.
Register them as Democrats.
I know some think this is murder, but in this case I would disagree. This is one of only a two situations where I believe abortion should be permitted. Severe birth defects to the child and the life of the mother. This is not the same thing as aborting for a “less than perfect baby.”
How does a mother benefit from having a dead baby four months earlier than nature would have provided?
She already died when the event that left her brain damaged in a coma occurred. Artifically keeping the body warm a few more weeks - months, years - isn’t doing anything for her, it’s a crutch for her loved ones to pretend she’s coming back. Withdrawal of life support is only killing if there’s a reasonable chance of recovery.
As far as the dog analogy, a dying animal is entitled to a quick and humane end. I should hope to be given the same consideration when it’s my turn.
I was tested with my pregnancies and will advise my kids to do the same.
My sister’s children have now had five babies born and each mom was tested. No problems, thank God.
The funny thing was when I told my OB about the family history, she wanted to do an amnio if I was “going to do anything about it.”
Stupidly, I said, “Like what?”
Duh.
When I realized that she was talking about an abortion, I told her, “No Way”.
She let me go with a triple check. I prayed a lot during the pregnancies.
“Does anybody have a problem with the government stopping her from leaving the country?”
Methinks the problem might be who is paying for the abortion. Irish Socialized Medicine probably won’t pay British Socialized Medicine for anything unless the bureaucrats approve it.
I used to believe that, until two friends of mine were told that their babies would have severe birth defects - one was "absolutely certain" to be mentally retarded, the other was "absolutely certain" to have spina bifida. Both children are perfect. I would never trust a birth defect diagnosis.
Does anybody have a problem with the government stopping her from leaving the country?
- How about if it was a man wanting to go to another country to have sex with a 7-year old? OK to stop him?-
Does any government stop such people from going on sex tours to Thailand or wherever else such disgraceful things occur? Would you favor legislation in your country to do so?
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