[AlbionGirl]

Those who believe abortion should be used as birth control, and equate it's moral signifigance as to a hangnail procedure, and those who think mentally retarded raped, physically at risk women should be forced to give birth are equal evils.

I understand the point you are trying to make, but I don't see them as equal evils. It is not certain that bringing this baby to term will kill the mother, while it is certain that aborting the baby will kill him or her, and the baby is not at fault for being conceived during an act of rape. They are not equal evils at all.

Although, I would defer to the grandmother's judgment in this because we never have nor will live in a perfectly just world, and this decision to abort doesn't seem to have been taken without serious consideration.

It is not unlike the rationale we used to assuage the guilt we felt at the killing of innocent Iraqi children in the service of a greater good.

[exDem from Miami]

From personal experience, I know Judge Rothenberg is a very thoughtful man. He is not a knee-jerk lib/rad. I doubt this decision was easy for him. The grandmother's wishes probably decided this case.