I hope she will be ok, what a stressful position to be in.

Poor girl. Hope she has ongoing support.

Wow the poor girl still can’t believe it’s illegal in qld

This would make a traumatic time even worse. There must be a better way.

This whole thing is seriously disturbing. I could not even imagine what being pregnant at 12 would be like for a start!

It’s difficult because what if she was only aborting because of perceived pressure from others? That would be worse for her mental state than going through court. I hope she gets the care she needs to nurture her through this tricky time

This story us so distressing to me! Not only is this poor child coming to terms with being pregnant at age 12, but the situation is dragged out by the court insisting she legally ask for permission fir an abortion :/

Given the fact that she has already self harmed, and a physciatrist is involved in her care, she could try to abort it herself and commit suicide in the process.
It used to be illegal for a girl that young to have sex anyway. I personally know a girl who checked the law before she and her boyfriend started a sexual relationship.

Was it really necessary to go to the Supreme Court for an abortion?

This poor child.
Im not sure why it requires such a drama of the courts, etc….couldnt something like this simply be granted via a Doctor based on her age?

She is 12, who in their right minds would think this child would be ready for motherhood.

This whole scenario is disturbing. I wonder how a 12 year old’s body would cope with a full pregnancy and birth.

I find this puts me in two minds. I am against abortion, I think that if this child was capable of making the choices to have sex and it has resulted in pregnancy then the option there is for adoption if neither of the grandparents wishes to help. The mental anguish of an abortion on someone of the age of 12 cannot be established. It wasn’t that long ago that most countries had girls at 12 married and having babies. (I don’t agree with it, but it was commonly believed that they were of breeding age so marriage and babies it was). Hopefully, the parents become alot more involved in their childs life and this doesn’t happen again soon.

Abortion is still taking a life in a certain way. I’m glad that taking a life is not seen as light as it is in some other countries and I think it’s good that somebody with authority (the judge) looked into the matter to distinguish if this 12 year old girl could make this decision herself. And that specialist obstetricians, a psychiatrist and social services were looking with her into that. I agree that a 12 year old is to young to parent, but I also think an abortion can be traumatic for such a young girl. Adoption would also be an option.

I think that it’s for the best in this case. Pregnancy(and child birth) at that age would be incredibly traumatic

She shouldn’t have to go to court at all! This makes me angry, even though she shouldn’t be pregnant it was obviously an accident so she should have the right to abort!!

Where in the world were the parents of these 2 children before this even occurred!? How did they know how to “do it”and where did they either learn, see or get it from? 12yrs old is super young. I think either way, this story is all wrong. 1st the parents are not there to avoid it from occurring and now they made the decision that their 12yr old child is not capable of having a child but they were capable of having sex? I’m complete against abortion…my thought is if they thought they were big enough to have sex, they are capable of having the child even if the child would have to be put up for adoption. They already did the mistake of having intercourse at such super young age. Even though they are at a very young age, they still did the mistake, it should have been handled differently I believe.

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  • • mom183045 replied
    • 27 Apr 2016 , 11:44 am

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  “how did they know how to do it??”
  Really?? 12 Years old seems young, but kids are getting younger and younger these day when it comes to experimenting. This is why we need more education about the subject in primary schools, instead of the government cutting funding in these areas! I fear we will see much more of this in the future if people keep burying their heads in the sand!!!

How ridiculous that it meeded to go to the Supreme Court to allow this. I can imagine this process would have made it all the more difficult and put more pressure on the girl than the pregnancy itself. At that age an abortion should be a huge consideration as at 12 you are not old enough to be a parent