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Article: "Baby Girl S" Born in Florida.(child carried to term by disabled women who was victim of rape)
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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When "Baby Girl S" was delivered August 30, the birth of the six-pound, seven-ounce child represented a happy ending to a story that began in sheer ugliness. The baby's severely mentally disabled mother, referred to in documents as "J.D.S.," tragically had been raped in an Orlando, Florida, group home where she lived.
Mother and child were at the center of a fierce controversy that extended for months over such issues as who would be appointed the mother's legal guardian, what would happen to the unborn child, and whether a separate guardian should have been appointed for the baby, as reguested by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Evidently, no one explicitly ...