Birth snarls legal debate (Florida)

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The state wants to continue arguing that a guardian should have been appointed for a disabled rape victim's fetus.

ORLANDO - A mentally disabled rape victim whose pregnancy led to a debate on whether fetuses may have guardians has given birth, but the court fight over the issue should go on, a spokeswoman for Gov. Jeb Bush said Sunday.

Bush pushed for a guardian to be appointed for the child while it was still a fetus, because the mother was severely disabled and unable to provide for its well-being.

A judge refused to appoint a guardian for the fetus, but a woman who asked to be the guardian appealed, backed by the state.

Abortion-rights activists have accused the Bush administration of pushing the case to open the door to broadly appointing guardians for fetuses, possibly as a method for stopping abortions.

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In addition to granting custody of the newborn to the state, Circuit Judge Jose Rodriguez also ordered a DNA sample to be taken from the child in hopes that Orlando police investigators can determine who raped the now 23-year-old mother.
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No word of when the decision will be made.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. And what?

Give the rapist a prize?

These men and misguided women who think that it is a rape victims' priviledge to bear a child conceieved in this way is beyond me. Do we really want to perpetuate the faulty genetic code that created the rapist by forcing his victims to give birth?

Wonder if Jeb would be so gung ho about this if his daughter were raped?

[soleft]

2. I wonder if Jennifer Wixtrom still wants to be guardian

now that there's a baby to take care of

[RC]

3. and possibly mentally disabled....

[morningglory]

5. Screw that baby, now. It has been born.

No more "right to life" for it! <sarcasm off>

[soup]

12. Since DCF has been granted

temporary emergency custody, I wonder if the baby will be placed in a foster home.

I doubt very much that Ms Wixtrom is suing for custody now that there is an actual child involved. I'd love to be proven wrong and find out her interest in this case isn't agenda driven- I doubt that's going to happen.

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[bearfan454]

9. Go back to freeperville you piece of shit

bush could do anything and you idiots would still vote for him.

[bearfan454]

10. I shouldn't lower myself to a freeper level

Sorry Mods.

[VermontDem2004]

11. piece of shit?

I didn't get to see his/her posts before they got deleted but what did he/she say to make you call him/her a piece of shit?

[Unforgiven]

8. Not Beethoven

No, not Beethoven.................................You!