Britain’s Compulsory Abortion Fight Shows Risks of Government-Controlled Health Care

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Britain’s Compulsory Abortion Fight Shows Risks of Government-Controlled Health Care

Robert Moffit / June 26, 2019 / 20 Comments

 
After doctors in Britain’s single-payer health system recommended that a mentally disabled woman undergo an abortion, a judge ordered the woman—an unidentified Roman Catholic—to have an abortion against her will.

In her June 21 decision, Justice Nathalie Lieven—a judge in Britain’s Court of Protection, a panel that handles cases involving the mentally disabled—declared, “I have to operate in her best interests, not on society’s view of termination.”

The case was quickly appealed —and, happily, quickly overturned.

Britain’s Court of Appeals on June 24 reversed Lieven’s order and ruled that British physicians cannot abort the intellectually disabled woman’s unborn child.

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