The teenager, who lives with her parents, only realized she was pregnant when her grandmother spotted her growing bump and took her for medical tests, the London Daily Mail newspaper reported.Posted on 05/14/2014 3:10:44 PM PDT by NYer
A judge in England this week ruled that a pregnant 13-year-old girl can have an abortion, even though she is 30-weeks along.
Justice Mostyn ruled she was capable of making decision after the girl, known only as “A” in court documents, said she was not ready to have a baby. She was 21 weeks pregnant when the case went before the High Court in mid-March, making it so her unborn child is roughly 30-weeks-old now.
The teenager, who lives with her parents, only realized she was pregnant when her grandmother spotted her growing bump and took her for medical tests, the London Daily Mail newspaper reported.
The abortion comes as, in the United States, a new report from the Guttmacher Institute finds teenage abortion rates are down to their lowest levels since 1988, a drop of 66 percent from that peak.
The schoolgirl – who can be identified only as ‘A’ – is believed to have thought she had been gaining a little weight for other reasons.
A scan at a local hospital confirmed she was pregnant but the devastated girl said she was not ready to start a family at such a young age and wanted to have a termination.
The girl was 21 weeks pregnant when the case went before the High Court as an emergency hearing in mid-March.
The local authority, which is in the North of England, was forced to seek a declaration that the child had the capacity to make the abortion decision herself.
This was required to ensure that doctors and hospital trusts could not be sued if they carried out the medical procedure.
If the girl was not capable of fully understanding the situation, the local authority would be allowed to terminate the pregnancy if doctors believed it was in her best interests.
He said this was the case even if it might lead her to take steps ‘wholly contrary to her best interests’.
He said girl A was interviewed by a consultant psychiatrist who concluded very clearly that she had ‘a very clear understanding of her position and of the options that were available to her.
‘Those options namely continuance of the pregnancy, or its termination, were discussed.’
Mr Justice Mostyn said the law allowed a child aged under 16 to be given contraception if they had ‘sufficient understanding and intelligence’
The psychiatrist said that although A was ‘softly spoken’ she was able to explain to him that her wish was to terminate the pregnancy as ‘she felt that she could not cope with its continuance and it would stress her to a considerable degree.’
It doesn't!
The welfare of the girl is not being enhanced by the state murdering that alive unborn child. The entire exercise is for the welfare of the devil state who do not want the monetary expense of the alive and aware child, so they will murder that unborn little one in the name of ‘looking out for the girl’s welfare.’
I don't disagee on a single point.
I have gone back and re-read everything I've said, and I can't imagine how you get the idea that I disagree with you. My only "push back" is to those who want to hold this 13 yr old child culpable. A 13 yr old is simply not mature enough to understand the ramifications of sex, even if it was "consensual" (and even that, for me, is a misnomer).
I am not addressing ‘those who want to hold the girl culpable.’ I am telling you and all readers that this girl will not be free of the soul killing effect of the state killing her child FOR HER (she through parents presumably, petitioned the court for the abortion). SHE CHOSE TO GO THIS ROUTE and she will have to live with the evil that is done. The state could care less.
God knows this is true. And they deserve our prayers.
And it was probably true in this poor girl's case. That's why we should all be condemning the "adults" around her -- those who let this situation occur, and those who want to end it in murder.
Agreed.
There is no other word for it.
Is a 13 yr old child more culpable than her parents, her advocates, her judges, her society? You're right, she will NOT be free of those soul-killing effects. Will you pray for her, or will you condemn her?
Woman, I will not only pray for her, I have a History of lending much more help that that for these scenarios. You have no idea how deeply involved I have been and still am in putting my actions and money where my professions are aimed. The girl has culpability in this terrible tragedy. The state is not helping her, they are helping themselves. Don’t assist the state in diverting culpability when the girl is also to some degree culpable.
In England they don’t have the “death penalty” (exception is babies). I would hope someone in England would intervene in the Court on behalf of the Child (if not done already). This murder (death penalty) is not allowed by membership in the EU “HUMAN RIGHTS”. This child has been sentenced to DEATH.
from Wiki (i don’t normally care too much for wiki, but it’s fast)
” In 2004 the 13th Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights became binding on the United Kingdom, prohibiting the restoration of the death penalty for as long as the UK is a party to the Convention”
In the land of the liberal, it’s only a “baby” if wanted. It’s the luck of the draw for life.
Yep. When Christianity is booted out, civilization’s fall is not far behind.
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