The anomaly that is the northern part on the island of Ireland, that is controlled by the UK has been shown constantly over the week-end. And most people don't like what they see. There has been more and more people asking questions why things like this can happen.
Pregnant young girl detained under Mental Health Act after seeking abortion
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 07:39 am
A young girl who asked for an abortion was sectioned in a psychiatric unit, according to a new report.
The Child Care Law Reporting Project has been looking at how children are treated in our legal system.
It has found that one girl was told by a psychiatrist that an abortion was 'not the solution' to her problems.
The girl was detained under the Mental Health Act but was later let go, on the advise of another doctor.
The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) have said today they are “disgusted” and “deeply concerned” by the reports that a pregnant child was detained under the mental health act after seeking an abortion.
"Looking at the report, it’s hard not to think that the psychiatrist in this case essentially used the Mental Health Act as a tool to force a child into continuing an unwanted pregnancy because of their own personal beliefs" said ARC spokesperson Linda Kavanagh.
"It is clear we need some process which ensures medical professionals with such conscientious objections cannot block timely health care in critical cases."
Ms Kavanagh also said the report was further evidence that the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act (PLDPA) is not fit for purpose.
Ms Kavanagh said it was “alarming” that the treatment of the girl in this case so closely mirrored previous high profile cases in Ireland.
"The report from the Child Care Law Reporting Project says that the girl and her mother thought she was being transferred to Dublin for an abortion and was instead detained," she said.
"This is a grave breach of trust of a vulnerable young girl and echos the treatment of Ms Y in 2013 who was also detained and lead to believe on several occasions she was getting the abortion she so desperately needed."
“We also saw similar treatment of Ms X in 1992, another suicidal child in need of an abortion who was prevented from accessing the care she needed by the State. That we are still seeing cases of this kind 25 years later is a disgrace and an indictment of successive Governments’ failure to deal with this issue.”
It is high cheek hypocrisy for the DUP to say they are for the Union with the UK, but want to opt out of things that apply to the rest of the UK.
The Tories are about to make a pact with a party whose views are not held by the majority of people in the UK. How are they not held to account when they obstruct UK law being implemented in a part of the UK, because the vote goes against them and they don't agree with the results.
These DUP MPs voted against Gay Marriage,
Gregory Campbell (Londonderry East), Nigel Dodds (Belfast North), Jeffrey Donaldson (Lagan Valley), Rev William McCrea (Antrim South), Ian Paisley Junior (Antrim North), Jim Shannon (Strangford), David Simpson (Upper Bann), Sammy Wilson (Antrim East)". And then used ‘petitions of concern’ to not give the same rights to people in Northern Ireland as the rest of the UK. Some 'defend the Union'. More like we will pick and choose which bits they want to defend.
These are the self same people May is negotiating with. Because of their refusal to implement UK law in Northern Ireland who is too say the will not use ‘petitions of concern’ with other legislation because they don't like it. They should have been reprimanded in Parliament for their refusal to bring UK law to all the UK. It can confidently be said that the UK doesn't support gay marriage. It can confidently be said that the UK will prosecute women in court if they have an abortion.
We can't other regions have the same opt out as those in the North of the island of Ireland?
Jon Snow
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One of the most extreme political entities in the British Isles, the 8 MPs of the DUP, is to wag the tail of Mrs May's minority Government
10:54 AM - 9 Jun 2017
It is more than that. The DUP are wagging the tail of the whole UK. May's pact with the DUP has forced people to look at the north of the island of Ireland and they don't like what they see.
