Judge Harms Says It's Okay To Order Late Term Abortions

About a month ago, there was a case that went to the Supreme Court in Massachusetts about a family law court judge near Boston who was petitioned by the family of a mentally ill woman in her thirties concerning her pregnancy. The family wanted the woman to be ordered by Judge Harms to have an abortion. The woman was about twenty weeks pregnant at the time. Judge Harms thought an abortion sounded like a good idea, and ordered it, as if it were an order for noncustodial visitation and rotating holidays. Naturally, the woman felt the healthy fetus moving inside of her and did not want labor induced so that a doctor or a nurse practitioner could set the baby down and allow it to die, as per the judge's orders. I wouldn't want that, either. Not that I think mental illness is a great quality for a parent to possess, but who, out in the Land of Reality, is perfect? Where should we draw the line? Alcoholics? Moms who don't make enough money for white picket fences? Should a mom serving time in prison, yet carrying a healthy fetus be aborted just because she'll be in prison while the child needs a mother? Or are there other solutions that don't involve death?

After being ordered by this Nazi throwback of a judge to abort a fetus during her second trimster, the woman decided upon civil disobedience, ( carrying a baby to term should NEVER be civil disobedience) and took family law court to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court sided with her, telling her that her child could live. Thank the Gods.

Back in court on municipal levels, Judge Harms retired early, because fallout from oversteppeing her bounds in such a serious way was too hard for her to face every day. A pregnant woman could face feeling her baby move, then submitting to her baby's death, but the Judge Harms was too cowardly to answer questions or face her constituents about her edict. She was planning to quietly continue to live among us, working as an instuctor at Boston University. Apparantly, no one wanted to sign up for her class, and no one wanted to share the teachers' lounge with her. Boston Universtiy rescinded their employment offer. Now the former Judge Harms feels slighted, and that she should still have had the opportunity to teach! I would certainly not take her class, I would not pay tuition for any of my children to take classes from her, and I can certainly see similar conflicts concerning any scholarship fund. Not many of us would want a young person educated by someone who openly violated not only the constitution, but everything for which we hope to stand, here in America.

"Harms, who retired last month, defended her ruling in a letter she sent Monday to other Massachusetts family court judges, saying she believed the schizophrenic woman would have chosen to have an abortion if she had been mentally competent."....Deborah Becker, WBUR..............Seriously, Judge Harms? You could feel a healthy fetus at four or five months moving inside of you, and deny him or her the opportunity to live? I'm so glad you are not on the bench anymore.

A Judge Thought She Could Terminate A Pregnancy

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.

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.