{"id":205501,"date":"2019-06-26T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205501"},"modified":"2019-06-26T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T22:12:18","slug":"forced-abortion-woman-promised-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/forced-abortion-woman-promised-doll\/","title":{"rendered":"HORRIBLE: Woman ordered to undergo forced abortion was promised ‘a new doll’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New details have emerged in the case of a woman in the UK who last week was ordered by a judge to undergo an abortion against her will.\u00a0The case was overturned<\/a> Monday in the Court of Appeals, where three senior judges ruled that forcing an abortion would be in violation of her human rights. As part of the case, details came to light about how the woman, whose identity remains unknown, was being prepared for the procedure.<\/p>\n

According to Sky News<\/a>, Fiona Paterson, the lawyer arguing on behalf of the NHS for the forced abortion, told the court: “She was told she would go to sleep. She would have an operation and when she woke up the baby would no longer be in her tummy. But she would get a new doll.” This was “thought to be in keeping with her current level of understanding of the pregnancy” and that her caregivers thought “the prospect of a new one might be very appealing to her.”<\/p>\n

The woman, who is in her 20s and who is 22 weeks pregnant, is said to have the intellectual capacity equivalent to that of a child aged somewhere between six and nine years of age. She also has a \u201cmoderately severe\u201d learning disorder and a mood disorder. Per the UK 1967 Abortion Act<\/a>, abortions in the UK are carried out until the 24th week of pregnancy. (See what a second trimester abortion looks like in the video below.)<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0SAVED: UK Court of Appeals overturns judge\u2019s order to force woman into late-term abortion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n