Posted on 06/24/2019 3:57:35 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A British judge ordered Friday that an abortion be performed on a mentally disabled woman who is 22 weeks pregnant, despite objections from the woman and her mother.
Justice Nathalie Lieven admits in the ruling of the “heartbreaking” case that it’s an “immense intrusion” to order the abortion against the woman’s will, but argued that it’s in the best interest of the woman.
“I am acutely conscious of the fact that for the State to order a woman to have a termination where it appears that she doesn't want it is an immense intrusion,” the justice said. “I have to operate in [her] best interests, not on society's views of termination."
The unnamed woman, a Roman Catholic, reportedly has developmental disabilities and the mental age of a 6- to 9-year-old. She has been described as being in her 20s and is in the care of an NHS trust, as part of the country’s National Health Service.
The woman’s mother, a former midwife, opposes the abortion procedure and told the court that she could take care of the child with the support from the daughter, Sky News reported.
A social worker who works with the woman also said the pregnancy should not be terminated.
But the judge said the woman didn’t have the mental capacity to make her own decisions even [though] it look[ed] like she wanted to continue the pregnancy.
“I think she would like to have a baby in the same way she would like to have a nice doll,” she said, pointing out that she didn’t fully comprehend what having a baby entails.
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Sick judge wouldn’t order a muzzie to get an abortion. It would, literally, be the last thing she’d do.
The British would do very well to abort the judge.
Hitlers Alive!!
“oh... a woman’s choice and right to her own body is sacrosanct... now kill the baby”
Proving once again that this never was about a woman’s right but about communist insurgency.
Here we go.
Coming soon to a courtroom in the US.
Selective genocide with libs deciding who lives and who dies.
But, President Trump is the fascist.
When do we stop obeying psychotics in black robes?
did they get the rapist?
Or are they afraid that if the child is born, that it would identify the rapist?
This was always going to be the next page in the abortionists’ playbook.
if being gay is not a mental illness, then perhaps being mentally challenged isn’t a mental illness either. ( THere was an apology issued by psychiatrists group last week)
Some of the most important and competent people in my life were born to parents of very limited ability. This judge is purely evil.
Other FReepers are mentioning the U.S. Supreme Court case
Buck v. Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
and the fact that it was never overturned.
Britain, it amazes me how far a nation can fall..
Ah, to be a “subject.”
So now British judges are imposing Nazi style eugenics?
This is why a judge made the decision: the young woman is a ward of the government, which was unable to prevent her being raped (either forcible or statutory).
Trial balloon.
How is this possible in a civilized country?
Everyone in England is a ward of the state whether or not they know it. Once the government runs yiur health care, they own you.
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