Judge's Forced Abortion Order Reversed

Read this little interesting tidbit on ACLJ about the war between Church and Caesar. Draw your own conclusions:

LifeNews.com is reporting that a Massachusetts state judge who ordered that a mentally ill woman have an abortion and be sterilized has been overruled by a state appeals court. The judge's order declared the pregnant woman, who sufferers from schizophrenia, incompetent and ordered that she have an abortion even if it required that she be "'coaxed, bribed, or even enticed … by ruse'" to do so.

The woman testified at the trial court hearing that she was "very Catholic," and when asked about having an abortion, she stated she "wouldn't do that." The judge's order stated that she had "substantial delusional beliefs" and concluded that she would "not choose to be delusional'' and would have chosen to have an abortion if she were competent.

The appellate court swiftly reversed this abhorrent decision, stating, "The personal decision whether to bear or beget a child is a right so fundamental that it must be extended to all persons, including those who are incompetent.'' The appellate court's decision sharply criticized the trial judge: "No party requested this measure, none of the attendant procedural requirements has been met, and the judge appears to have simply produced the requirement out of thin air."

My comment:

I graduated 235 out of a graduating class of 237 in my lawschool. This tells you two things: first, as a lawyer, I make a darned good science fiction writer. Second, that somewhere in the Commonwealth of Virginia, are two lawyers even worse than I. A staggering thought.

Whether one of those two passed the bar in Massachusetts and became a judge, that I cannot say: although it would explain the fact pattern.

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