Posted on 06/28/2005 6:55:46 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A JUDGE today ordered the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne to produce the medical file of a suicidal woman who was given an abortion when she was 32 weeks pregnant.
Supreme Court judge, Justice Bill Gillard, dismissed an appeal by the hospital against an earlier decision by a magistrate.
Outside the court, Victorian Health Services Commissioner Beth Wilson said she was disappointed that patient privacy and confidentiality should count for so little.
Unless a decision is made to appeal against today's ruling, the hospital must now hand over the file to the Medical Practitioners' Board of Victoria.
The woman, known only as Mrs X requested the termination in late January 2000.
She had been told that her baby, might have skeletal dysplasia, or "dwarfism".
In May 2001, Senator Julian McGauran asked the Medical Practitioners' Board to investigate the matter.
For all anyone knows, they are normal and the others are all fiendish freaks.
Besides which, 32 weeks isn't an abortion ~ it's a killing.
ALL abortion is the killing of an innocent human being. 32 weeks is most certainly infanticide.
Yes, it's rarely about the child. Almost always whether the strong and powerful want them.
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