Posted on 06/24/2019 1:51:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
The English Court of Appeals has reversed a decision to force a woman with developmental disabilities to have an abortion, overturning a decision from Justice Nathalie Lieven on June 21 in England's Court of Protection. The woman in question is 22 weeks pregnant, meaning the abortion would've been late-term. In her ruling, Lieven explained that she "has to operate" in the woman's "best interests, not on society's views of termination.” She reportedly accepted the opinion of NHS trust, which concluded that an abortion would be less traumatic for the pregnant woman than giving birth.
In its overturning, the Court of Appeals ruled that “doctors must not be allowed to perform an abortion on a pregnant mentally-ill woman."
Pro-life advocates were outraged over the initial ruling, including those here across the pond. On Monday, before the Court of Appeals's reversal, Rubio sent an urgent letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan asking them to grant the pregnant woman a temporary non-immigrant visa to seek alternative medical care here in the States.
"I write with grave concern about the case of a 22-week pregnant Catholic woman with developmental disabilities in the United Kingdom who—against the wishes of her and her Nigerian-origin mother—is being required by a British court to undergo a forced late-term abortion, in what I believe to be a clear human rights violation," Rubio wrote. "I urge your Departments to quickly investigate this case and, within all applicable laws and regulations, to offer assistance to her and her mother in seeking alternative medical care either in the United States through a temporary non-immigrant visa or through humanitarian parole for a temporary period due to this urgent humanitarian emergency, or at medical facilities in a third country that will not compel her to undergo a forced late-term abortion."
Pro-life groups commended Rubio for bringing attention to the case, because he just may have had something to do with the UK's change of heart.
“We are thankful and relieved that mother and child will be spared a monstrous injustice,” SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said. “Forced abortion is a horrific violation of the human rights of both unborn children and their mothers. Justice Lieven’s order reeks of eugenics and is the type of oppression one would expect to see under a totalitarian regime, like China’s brutal state-enforced population control. Such a ruling could not occur in a vacuum – it exposes a culture of devaluation of human life and prejudice toward individuals with disabilities, right up to the most elite levels of society. The silence of the abortion lobby and their political allies on this atrocity is deafening. We thank Senator Rubio for his pro-life leadership and will never rest in our fight to end the violence of abortion.”
People in Florida think he is an even bigger fake. Most of my family is Florida and closest friends (and more) are from Florida. Florida knows more than anyone the guy is fake. You must have worked on his campaign... Anyway, the UniParty specifically put a weak Democrat candidate to challenge him for the Senate run. They need his losership in the Senate.
I do know that Democrats think he is fake. I did not campaign for him, but will vote for him. He has been good for the state. Of course they need his number in the Senate.....we need majority to keep chairmanships and appoint judges. He has also voted on all the judges which is more important then anything else going on quite frankly.
Rubio is very principled and good on things like this.
Agreed, naps. Rubio gets a lot of things right : abortion, Venez, Florida, defense (usually).
Rubio gets some things wrong too: emigracion (Gang of Eight), Romney sockpuppetry, always posturing every decision as ‘running-for-President’, and the whole Foam Boy bidness.
a Nigerian woman in the UK, then
Way to go Marco.
+1
He may very well have contributed to saving the baby.
I have exactly 0 confidence he did so out of the goodness of his heart, so I agree with you. Imagine if he tried this hard for everything ELSE he should be worried about - we probably would’ve elected him president.
Not against Trump but certainly a sincere Rubio would have been head and shoulders preferable to McDead and Rambler Boy. If I weren’t cynical, I wouldn’t think that he did this to cement conservative and right-to-life support.
I agree. He needs to tighten up on those issues. He learned from 2016. I hope.
Florida is becoming ruby red. Yeah.
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Until Micro Rubio and Flimsey Grahamnesty get that amnesty and give their “friends” across the aisle a permanent majority.
It’s the only way for a public office holder to be: Pro-life. All others need not apply or vote.
BUMP!
Yeah, we want foreigners making their way over here to interfere with our justice system.
But, the ends justify the means, don’t they?
By any means necessary.
if this is a PR stunt, it’s the kind of PR stunt we could use more of.
And who will be caring for the infant? Pro-life is just the beginning.
Who cares for all the hungry, disabled, lost & lonely & unwanted people?
Let’s just kill them-—?
The mother apparently cannot care for the child. So what are the plans for it when it’s born?
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