So where are the ‘pro-choice’ people supporting the woman’s choice to keep her baby? Pretty crazy when the state can demand this.
A judge in the United Kingdom ruled that a mentally disabled pregnant mother must abort her baby because doctors have arbitrarily decided an abortion would be less traumatic for her than childbirth. At 22 weeks gestation, this baby can feel pain and may be viable outside the womb.
According to the Catholic News Agency, the pregnant mother has developmental disabilities and is “believed to have the mental capacity of a grade school-age child.” Consequently, U.K. judges and doctors have decided she should not have a child, and that an abortion would be less emotionally traumatic.
In her ruling for the Court of Protection on June 21, Justice Nathalie Lieven said, “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 … [but] I have to operate in [her] best interests, not on society’s views of termination.”
“Immense intrusion” is a remarkable understatement. If the government can force you to abort your child, is there any limit to its power?