A horrifying case out of the United Kingdom, where the State controls citizens' healthcare decisions, and consequently, their lives. Many people watched with disgust as that government actively barred parents from seeking experimental and long-shot overseas medical treatments for their severely ill children, even though the disputed care wouldn't have cost taxpayers any money. These supposedly "free" people were literally prevented from leaving the country to pursue independent options for their own children. The power of the State, and the force of its ultimate monopoly on healthcare-related decisions, was deemed to be the paramount consideration. Now we have a British court ruling that government doctors must abort the unborn child of a developmentally-challenged woman in her 20s, even though the mother, her family, and even the mother's social worker all oppose the abortion (via the Catholic News Agency):
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