Judge Christine Harms (how much more appropriate could her name be?) really thought she could order a member of the public to have an abortion, twenty weeks into term! Apparently, the thirty-two year old woman's parents petitioned a family court in Massachusetts to order her to schedule and abortion and be sterilized because of mental illness! When the case went to court, Judge Harms (still chuckling about the judge's name) heard the case, and went ahead and ordered the poor woman to abort! This is craziness! And how many other such orders has this judge issued while on the bench? This is NOT an intended function of family law court!
The question Judge Harms should have asked, immediately, is "Who and where is the father?" No mention of that appears in any article available, so far, about this case. Could the father be someone close to the mother, who, say......would be embarrassed about such a pregnancy, and not want to take responsibility? Could the father be someone in the mother's own family? We may find out, since Judge Harms's order was overturned by the Supreme Court. It seems that everything about this ruling seemed wrong, very wrong, from the assumption that this woman could even find a doctor willing to abort a healthy twenty to twenty four week old fetus to the assumption that she, herself, could make the determination concerning the baby's right to a healthy birth! Thank the Gods that someone here had common sense!
It looks like Judge Harms has flown the coop, in the wake of all this bad publicity. According to Yahoo News, "Harms, who recently retired, could not be reached for comment Tuesday." No doubt.
The question Judge Harms should have asked, immediately, is "Who and where is the father?" No mention of that appears in any article available, so far, about this case. Could the father be someone close to the mother, who, say......would be embarrassed about such a pregnancy, and not want to take responsibility? Could the father be someone in the mother's own family? We may find out, since Judge Harms's order was overturned by the Supreme Court. It seems that everything about this ruling seemed wrong, very wrong, from the assumption that this woman could even find a doctor willing to abort a healthy twenty to twenty four week old fetus to the assumption that she, herself, could make the determination concerning the baby's right to a healthy birth! Thank the Gods that someone here had common sense!
It looks like Judge Harms has flown the coop, in the wake of all this bad publicity. According to Yahoo News, "Harms, who recently retired, could not be reached for comment Tuesday." No doubt.
This is not a meaningless clump of cells and DNA. This is a baby. Even from a pro choice standpoint, one should not wait five months to abort a healthy baby. It is also no one's personal privilege to decide which healthy babies get to live, after healthy birth, and which healthy babies must die, after abortions performed under extreemly questionable circumstances.
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