I'm always amazed at how judges can get inside someone's head to make certain decisions even ordering someone to abort a baby and sterilization.
This country has a long history of forcibly sterilizing those the government deems "feeble-minded" or otherwise defective. Part of atoning for that crime is to make sure that we stay out of the business of deciding who's worthy of having a kid.
The paragraph above is the ending of a story posted at,
http://jezebel.com/5877118/horrible-judge-tries-to-force-schizophrenic-woman-to-get-abortion-be-sterilized
A few years ago the mother of a mentally ill daughter told me the difficulties the family was having when they found out that she was pregnant. One member was adamant that she abort the child while the others kept pointing out her responsibility for that unborn child. They feared what would happen once the daughter went off her meds.
That unborn child would turn out to be just what the doctor (God) ordered in that she was made the focus of all her attention. With her family's support the woman was able to go the full term without one psychotic episode
Thank God there was another judge that ruled that the woman's right to have the baby had to be respected.
See story by Peter Gelzinis
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1396750&format=email
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When abortion was illegal, this type of incident was a family issue. The burden of the family was not to think about making their sick family member choose murder, but how they were all going to pitch in and help raise their precious new member of the family. It is not the country that has run off the track, it's people! When you take God out of the picture, the picture grows dark and twisted.
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