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Catholic mother appeals after judge approves abortion for pregnant mentally ill daughter
The woman asked Court of Appeal judges to overturn Mrs Justice Lieven’s decision.
Three appeal judges are considering the case at a Court of Appeal hearing in London.
Mrs Justice Lieven concluded that a pregnancy termination was in the woman’s daughter’s best interests on Friday after analysing evidence at a hearing in the Court of Protection, where issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions are considered, in London.
Bosses at an NHS trust responsible for the woman’s care had asked Mrs Justice Lieven to let doctors perform an abortion.
Three specialists, an obstetrician and two psychiatrists said a termination was the best option because of the risk to the woman’s daughter’s psychiatric health if pregnancy continued.
They said the woman’s daughter’s behaviour could pose a risk to a baby.
Specialists also said taking a baby from the woman’s daughter would cause greater psychiatric harm than terminating the pregnancy.
The woman’s mother, a former midwife, was against termination and said she could care for the child.
A social worker who works with the woman’s daughter said the pregnancy should continue.
Lawyers who represented the woman’s daughter also said she should be allowed to give birth.
But Mrs Justice Lieven, who is based in the Family Division of the High Court, said a balance of evidence showed that termination was the best…
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Biden Pledges to ‘Codify Roe v. Wade’ into Federal Law if Elected President
Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden said Saturday if elected he would “codify” legalized abortion into federal law in case the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
“It should be the law,” Biden told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s 2020 Election Membership Forum in Columbia, S.C. Other Democratic presidential candidates also addressed the forum.
“There’s no reason why” abortion should be illegal even if the Supreme Court took up one of the cases that “everybody’s worried about,” Biden said.
“I would codify Roe v Wade as defined by Casey,” Biden said, referencing the 1992 decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, that affirmed Roe. In Casey, the high court said abortion restrictions are unconstitutional if they impose an “undue burden” on a pregnant woman.
Such a federal abortion law presumably would require a friendly Democratic-controlled House and Senate. Although Democrats currently control the House, Republicans are in charge of the Senate.
Biden also promised to cover abortion within his health plan. He renewed his recent commitment to overturn the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion.
“No rationale can be offered that if you’re covered by the federal system, you cannot then use federal funding to seek reproductive health care,” he said.
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Christian doctor faces new investigation over prayer with patients
Dr Richard Scott is a Christian and GP at Bethesda Medical Centre in Margate, Kent, who says that he offers prayer to patients occasionally – estimating he offers prayer to about one in every forty patients.
The GMC, which says it protects patients and supports healthcare providers by improving medical practice, wrote to Dr Richard Scott on 7th June saying it had received “some information” from the National Secular Society and would begin a fitness to practice investigation.
The National Secular Society raised concern after someone they say was described as “highly vulnerable” by an acquaintance was made to feel uncomfortable by his use of prayer.
The NSS said: “The acquaintance told the NSS that the patient felt unable to express discomfort and was not able to raise the matter formally or change GP practice.”
Tim Dieppe from campaign group Christian Concern, which is supporting him, told Premier’s News Hour that Dr Scott always asks his patients if they’re open to discussion: “Sometimes they’re not, and that he respects that and other times they are and they engage in the conversation.
“The National Secular Society are being very aggressive in saying he should be struck-off for having conversations about spirituality once he’s done his clinical GP responsibilities in the appointment with his patients and I think that’s way over the top. He’s a very good doctor…
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Democrats Agree to Approve Some of President Trump’s Emergency Border Funding
The Democrats have finally agreed to approve at least a small part of President Trump’s emergency border funding, in order to deal with the spiraling humanitarian crisis.
The decision was announced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sunday, just a day after President Trump agreed to halt a series of scheduled deportations due to take place over the next fortnight. Though this injection of cash should aid the situation on the border to some degree, the two parties are still far from finding any enduring consensus on the issue.
“This legislation provides urgently needed humanitarian assistance for families, including funding for food, shelter, clothing, medical care and legal assistance, and will relieve the horrific situation of overcrowding and help prevent additional deaths,” Pelosi explained, according to the Washington Times.
The speaker went on to take a quick shot at the President, blaming him for the crisis which has seen thousands of migrants held in sprawling detention centers. “The president’s failed policies have exacerbated the situation at the border, where vulnerable children endure inhumane conditions that threaten their health, well-being and sometimes, tragically, their lives,” the leading Democrat fumed.
Trump has been at odds with the Democrats over the controversial issue ever since taking office. The President has continued to assert his…
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Doctors must not abort mentally-ill woman’s baby, appeal judges rule
A judge on Friday concluded that a pregnancy termination was in the woman’s best interests.
Mrs Justice Lieven had analysed evidence at a hearing in the Court of Protection, where issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions are considered, in London.
But three appeal judges on Monday over-ruled that decision after the woman’s mother, a former midwife, mounted a challenge.
Lord Justice McCombe, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Peter Jackson had considered the challenge at a Court of Appeal hearing in London.
They said they would give reasons for their decision at a later date.
Lawyers said they thought the circumstances of the case were unique.
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British Judge Orders Disabled Woman to Get Abortion over Objection of Her Mom
A British judge has ordered a mentally disabled woman to get an abortion over the objections of her Catholic mother, who said she would have cared for the baby.
The woman was 22 weeks pregnant when Justice Nathalie Lieven issued a ruling June 21 ordering the abortion to be performed. The pregnant woman has not been identified publicly, although she is in her 20s. She wanted to give birth.
“I am acutely conscious of the fact that for the State to order a woman to have a termination where it appears that she doesn’t want it is an immense intrusion,” Lieven said in her ruling in the Court of Protection, according to the Catholic News Agency.
“I have to operate in [her] best interests, not on society’s views of termination,” Lieven wrote.
The woman’s mother, a member of the Nigerian Igbo community, had argued an abortion would violate her religious and community beliefs. She had asked the judge to allow her to take care of the baby. The mother and the pregnant woman are Catholic.
“I think [the woman] would suffer greater trauma from having a baby removed [from her care],” Lieven said, because “it would at that stage be a real baby.”
Doctors for the government-funded National Health Service trust had argued the woman needed an abortion.
“[Her] treating clinicians consider that on balance, a termination is in her best…
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