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.”
