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Following a decision by the Court of Appeals in England to overturn an order for a forced abortion on a disabled woman, new details have emerged about the case.<\/p>\n

Lawyers told the appeal court Monday that doctors had prepared the woman for the\u00a0enforced abortion by promising her a new doll after the procedure.<\/p>\n

Fiona Paterson, the barrister representing the National Health Service (NHS) hospital trust that cares for the woman,\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the appeal court on Monday that doctors had informed the woman that \u201cshe would go to sleep\u201d and that \u201cshe would have an operation and when she woke up the baby would no longer be in her tummy.\u201d<\/p>\n

To try to placate the woman, who did not wish to undergo the procedure, doctors told her that she would be given a new doll to play with after undergoing the abortion.<\/p>\n

Observing that the woman had previously been given a doll, Paterson said that doctors thought \u201cthe prospect of a new [doll] might be very appealing to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman reportedly has a mental age between six and nine years old, as well as a mood disorder. She was 22 weeks pregnant at the time the case was decided at the Court of Protection on June 21.<\/p>\n

Both the woman, who cannot be named because of privacy restrictions, and her mother are described as being of Nigerian descent, Catholic, and opposed to abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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