A U.K. appeals court on Monday reversed a previous ruling that would have forced a mentally-ill woman to abort her child against both her wishes and those of her mother.
Justice Nathalie Lieven ruled Friday that an unidentified London woman, who is in her twenties but is said by the court to have the mental capacity of a 6-to-9-year-old child, must abort her 22-week-old unborn baby on the grounds that carrying the child to term would damage her mental health.
"I have to operate in [her] best interests, not on society's views of termination," Lieven explained in her decision.
According to a Press Association report, a three-judge panel overturned that decision Monday following an appeal filed by the unidentified woman’s mother, a Nigerian immigrant and a former midwife who opposes the abortion and has offered to care for the child.
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