PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A judge Monday overturned his unusual decision that temporarily barred a woman from having an abortion, allowing her to end her pregnancy.
Luzerne County Common Pleas Judge Michael Conahan dissolved the temporary injunction forbidding Tanya Meyers, 23, from ending her pregnancy. He also dismissed the lawsuit filed by her ex-boyfriend, John Stachokus, who had sought to force her to carry her pregnancy to term,
``Her right to privacy has been restored and she is free to go on with her life,'' said Susan Fritchey, an attorney with the Women's Law Project and co-counsel for Meyers. ``It's a great relief for her.''
Stachokus, 27, had said he was willing to take full or partial custody of the child and claimed in his suit that Meyers was being pressured by her mother to have the abortion. The case gained the support of abortion opponents and fathers' rights groups, which said men should have a say in the outcome of a pregnancy they helped create.
AP-ES-08-05-02 1358EDT
Thanks judge. Goldenstategirl posted this on a related thread. This story's for you:
This reminds of something I experienced as a pediatric ER nurse. It had such an effect on me I will never forget it. We had a 15 yo girl come in with her mother. The girl had just had an abortion. She was screaming, sobbing. It was the kind of grief a person feels when they have done something so horrible and can never take it back. All she could do was cry "I killed my baby, I killed my baby." It affected every one of us there very deeply. There was nothing 'physically' wrong with her and our ER doc didn't know what to do. She was upset and had to leave the room. My friend and I just looked at each other while another nurse (pro-abort who probably had an abortion herself) went into the room and tried to tell the girl that "it was no big deal". The 15 yo screamed louder and that nurse finally ran out of the room. I called the social worker. She got there, became agitated, and left. I later learned that the social worker had had an abortion as a teenager and freaked out. I called pastoral care. No one wanted to show up. It was just me and my co-worker outside the door and neither of us knew what to do. The 15 yo's mother just sat there in the room the whole time with a blank look on her face. Finally, our doctor just discharged her.I will never, ever forget that patient.