According to the Huffington Post UK: “A ‘very damaged’ 13-year-old girl was ordered to have an abortion by Britain’s most senior family judge, it has been revealed.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was impregnated by a 14-year-old boy and initially wanted to keep her baby.

That’s right. This girl, because she was considered mentally incompetent, was forced—forced—to have her child dismembered, decapitated, and disemboweled by the medical establishment because one Sir James Munby decided that capital punishment was most appropriate for being the child of a someone he described as “very…impaired.”

Is this China, or the United Kingdom? The UK’s government intrusion has gotten draconian, mind you, but really? They also have the right to forcibly enter a female’s uterus and kill and extract her pre-born offspring?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/..._hp_ref=uk

Tough call if you ask me.

It's a bad situation either way.

"Very damaged?" Was she mentally retarded or what?

(06-11-2014 10:48 AM)smn1256 Wrote:  Tough call if you ask me.

(06-11-2014 10:50 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  It's a bad situation either way.

True on both.

I didn't read the full link and it's unclear to me what level of involvement or responsibility the mother's family and the father's family have (or desire to have) in all this. But all in all, I think we should err on the side of preserving life rather than on the side of extinguishing life. Clearly the British judicial system chose the opposite approach.

(06-11-2014 10:56 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  "Very damaged?" Was she mentally retarded or what?

"who has an IQ of just 54 and the comprehension skills of a seven-year-old - reached her 14th week."

I think forced adoption would have been a better option..

I would have hated to be that judge.

I think this is another example of how sick abortion is.

I'm consistent on the issue - I don't want the law to tell women they must have an abortion or that they can't have an abortion. I want women to have the freedom to make those difficult decisions without government intrusion.

Government should not force abortions.

That said, how many people would be willing to adopt a mentally deficient child? If the mother has an IQ of 54 then the child would seem to be at a high risk for the same disability. It is a bad situation.

(06-11-2014 11:32 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Government should not force abortions.

That said, how many people would be willing to adopt a mentally deficient child? If the mother has an IQ of 54 then the child would seem to be at a high risk for the same disability. It is a bad situation.

So you are suggesting that euthanasia is the answer. Cleanse out the gene pool...Think about how sick your statement was.

I actually opened by saying the government shouldn't force abortions, in case you missed it. It was a bad situation with no great solution.

(06-11-2014 11:32 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Government should not force abortions.

That said, how many people would be willing to adopt a mentally deficient child? If the mother has an IQ of 54 then the child would seem to be at a high risk for the same disability. It is a bad situation.

I know many people who have adopted mentally deficient children... The problem is that govt's haev made adoption far too difficult.

(06-11-2014 11:40 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  I actually opened by saying the government shouldn't force abortions, in case you missed it. It was a bad situation with no great solution.

yeah, but you totally lost it when you suggested that no one would adopt this child...suggesting that was an argument for what happened.

(06-11-2014 11:01 AM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(06-11-2014 10:56 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  "Very damaged?" Was she mentally retarded or what?

"who has an IQ of just 54 and the comprehension skills of a seven-year-old - reached her 14th week."

I think forced adoption would have been a better option..

Isn't that what Gump's IQ was?

(06-11-2014 11:32 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Government should not force abortions.

That said, how many people would be willing to adopt a mentally deficient child? If the mother has an IQ of 54 then the child would seem to be at a high risk for the same disability. It is a bad situation.

Many many many people.

(06-11-2014 11:52 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-11-2014 11:32 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Government should not force abortions.

That said, how many people would be willing to adopt a mentally deficient child? If the mother has an IQ of 54 then the child would seem to be at a high risk for the same disability. It is a bad situation.

Many many many people.

Would you?

(06-11-2014 12:01 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  

(06-11-2014 11:52 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-11-2014 11:32 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Government should not force abortions.

That said, how many people would be willing to adopt a mentally deficient child? If the mother has an IQ of 54 then the child would seem to be at a high risk for the same disability. It is a bad situation.

Many many many people.

Would you?

If he's not looking to adopt then I highly doubt it.

Most people looking to adopt prefer healthy, attractive children. It's hard enough for a child to find a good home even when they don't have deficiencies.

(06-11-2014 12:15 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  Most people looking to adopt prefer healthy, attractive children. It's hard enough for a child to find a good home even when they don't have deficiencies.

Was going to be my next point.