Posted on 06/25/2019 5:28:01 PM PDT by marshmallow
Judges said the circumstances were 'unique' but they would issue a full explanation at a later date
A controversial UK court decision to force a disabled woman to have an abortion has been overturned on appeal.
In a decision reportedly reached June 24, the English Court of Appeal, consisting of Lord Justice McCombe, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Peter Jackson, overturned the previous ruling of the Court of Protection.
According to Press Association reports, the judges said they would issue a full explanation of their decision at a later date, but that the circumstances of the case were “unique.”
Mrs Justice Nathalie Lieven imposed the original decision on June 21 in the Court of Protection in England, which hears cases involving the legal and personal affairs of people judged to have diminished mental capacity.
Lieven ruled that a forced abortion was “in the best interests” of the pregnant woman, over the objections of the woman herself, her mother, and her social worker. The woman, who has not been identified, is reportedly in her 20s and is of Nigerian descent. Both she and her mother are Catholic, and the court heard that they objected strongly to the abortion on religious grounds.
The decision on appeal comes after thousands of people signed a petition urging U.K. Health and Social Care Secretary Matthew Hancock to intervene in the case.
Two Catholic bishops in the U.K. had also spoken out against the decision.
The online petition, started by Right to Life UK June 22, has received over 75,000 signatures since it was posted.
The petition urges the Health Secretary “to intervene in this case, so far as possible, to prevent this gross injustice being inflicted by the State on this family and ensure this woman is not forced to have an abortion.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
Well after all this is not shocking in a communist state...
So glad to hear this. (After they pretty much murdered that little boy.) I work for a British company now, I hate to think my home office is in the land of the completely depraved.
Praise the Lord, there’s a wee bit of sanity left. And may G-d bless this baby’s grandmother who is trying to care for both her daughter and this new grandchild.
I’d like to know who impregnated this woman, that hasn’t been mentioned.
Democrats are literal Nazis.
What are they really?
Nazis? Communists? Socialists? Insane socialists? Sexual deviants?
What would we call their government.
I think the nazis were socialist, weren’t they.
I get confused by the terms.
“I think the nazis were socialist, weren’t they.”
NAZI was an acronym. National SOCIALIST Workers Party.
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Nah that would be NSWP :)
I guess it stand for German words :)
“I guess it stand for German words :)”
It sure did. They speak German there you know.
LOL
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It took 51 years to find that out!! :)
But I think you’re wrong because in the movies the Germans speak very good English :)
My God. An entire country full of people who always sound like they’re yelling at you!
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