Teenager seeking abortion at no risk to suicide
The girl, known as Miss D, was assessed by a psychiatrist last week who, in a report read to the court yesterday, concluded she was “not suicidal at present”, had no psychiatric illness and had appropriate insight into her situation.
The psychiatrist reported the 17-year-old was very upset and had run out of hospital when she learned from a scan on April 23 that her baby has anencephaly, a condition in which a major part of the brain is missing. She had said she felt guilty because she had not taken folic acid during her pregnancy.
