(I am aware this article is very biased, but just try to see around that).

Kansas Doctor Under Attack For Not Forcing Ten Year Old Rape Victim To Give Birth

As the anti-choice crusade continues throughout GOP controlled states, Dr. Ann Neuhaus bravely took up the cause of women’s rights after Christian jihadist Scott Roeder murdered Dr. George Tiller in 2009. Now, Dr. Neuhaus may lose her license for the “sin” of not forcing a mentally ill ten year old to carry her uncle’s baby to term.
You read that correctly; there are people in Kansas who think it is proper that a 10 year should have a child. Never mind the rape, incest and mental illness; a ten year old! Ten years olds should be learning how to put on make up and giggling over pictures of Justin Bieber, not learning how to change diapers. That should tell you just how diseased the anti-choice movement has become.
It’s so bad that state officials have attempted to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic for falsifying documents. Documents that the prosecution destroyed so they could not be examined.
Keeping this kind of potentially illegal activity, Operation Rescue, a group that has an alarmingly high number of ties to various “isolated incidents” involving domestic Christian terrorism including Scott Roeder, must be somewhat confident.
Care2.com reports:

Operation Rescue filed a negligence complaint against Neuhaus alleging that her exams were not thorough enough to support her medical conclusions and her follow-up care was inadequate because she did not recommend counseling or hospitalization after each procedure.

Neuhaus offered a rebuttal of her own. “To even claim that isn’t medically necessary qualifies as gross incompetence,” said Neuhaus. “Someone’s 10 years old, and they were raped by their uncle and they understand that they’ve got a baby growing in their stomach and they don’t want that. You’re going to send this girl for a brain scan and some blood work and put her in a hospital?”

The Kansas Medical Board, which includes a former lawyer for Operation Rescue, produced an “expert” that testified that abortion can never be considered to have a positive impact on a patient’s mental health. That, of course, is not the point being argued. The actual point is not whether abortion is a positive but if it is less of a negative than forcing a ten year old to give birth against her will.
This is what the fanatics of the anti-choice movement deliberately ignore: in their zeal to “protect” innocent children they would happily sacrifice other children. The “impartial” Kansas Medical Review Board has already declined to renew her license. If Dr. Neuhaus loses her appeal, she permanently loses her ability to practice medicine and that’s the only thing that matters to the morally bankrupt pro-”life” movement.

D&D... do you think Dr. Neuhaus should lose her medical license? Do you think abortion was the right decision for this ten year old?

Smurf no she shouldn't, the kid didn't want the baby.

She had made her choice.

It was definitely the right choice. The poor girl was raped and carrying a child of incest at age 10 her body doesn't need to go through the drastic changes and there's no way in hell she could ever support that kid until it was around 6. She would be in high school when her kid started elementary smurf that.

I think it should be parents choice since it is their child who is still most def. A minor. It shouldn't be a doctor choice I think the doctor should give the parents pros and cons of keeping verus aborting and let the parents go from there...

No she shouldnt. Because it could scar that little girl for life.   I am happy for her. I just read that a 11 year old gave birth because the parents didnt want the girl to get an abortion and she didnt seek medical attention.

It was absolutely the right choice. No, the doctor should not lose her license.

And shame on anyone who thinks she should.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Brittney Bumgarner:</b>" I think it should be parents choice since it is their child who is still most def. A minor. It shouldn't ... [snip!] ... choice I think the doctor should give the parents pros and cons of keeping verus aborting and let the parents go from there..."</blockquote>




So her body her choice only starts at 18?

She should not lose her license. A ten year old having a baby under any circumstance is not healthy in anyway. The fact that she is ten and raped and it was invest ate all the more reason. That little girl didn't ask for any of that. It was her choice no one should have to anything against their will especially delivering a child they do not want at 10 years old because they were taped. Shouldn't the focus here be the mental issues that this girl had thanks to a lifetime of abuse?

Quoting Brittney Bumgarner:" I think it should be parents choice since it is their child who is still most def. A minor. It shouldn't ... [snip!] ... choice I think the doctor should give the parents pros and cons of keeping verus aborting and let the parents go from there..."

Wait. WHAT? So the 10 year old girl should have to suffer through whatever HER parents wanted to have her do? Yeah that makes total sense.

But I would def have her abort.. she is already emotionally tramatized no need to make it worse

I guess I'll give my opinion too. I think it was absolutely the right decision to abort and I wish there was some way I could help Dr. Neuhaus fight to keep her license! That child is 10, mentally ill, and was raped by her uncle. How can anyone think it would be a good idea to force her to give birth?

this is a purely legal question
does kansas require parental consent for abortions for 10 year olds?
did the abortion break any laws?
if so, then yes, the doctor should lose license. that's the thing with laws in a democracy: don't like 'em? work to change 'em.
but if you simply break the law, it's totally fair to suffer the consequences.

as an aside, this is one of the saddest things i've heard in a while, and i sympathize. however, if the 10 year old is mentally ill, how can we talk about ANY kind of consent whatsoever? how do we know the doctor didn't just impose her own POV and persuaded / cajoled / manipulated this poor child??

I'm curious what the people who think she SHOULD lose her license have to say.

Quoting Brink:" It was definitely the right choice. The poor girl was raped and carrying a child of incest at age 10 ... [snip!] ... she could ever support that kid until it was around 6. She would be in high school when her kid started elementary smurf that."

She is mentally ill on top of it all as well.

I just can't imagine how... how anyone would think it's a good idea.

Quoting regina_margot:" this is a purely legal question does kansas require parental consent for abortions for 10 year olds? ... [snip!] ... whatsoever? how do we know the doctor didn't just impose her own POV and persuaded / cajoled / manipulated this poor child??"

" they were raped by their uncle and they understand that they’ve got a baby growing in their stomach and they don’t want that." The girl knew she was pregnant and didn't want to be.