An eleven-year old girl, allegedly pregnant from rape by her uncle, is allowed to have an abortion even though her pregnancy is past the fourteen week legal limit in her country:
At a meeting, a Romanian government committee member, Vlad Iliescu, read out an emotive letter from the girl.
"I want to go to school and to play. If I can't do this, my life will be a nightmare," the letter said.
Iliescu said a 21-week-old foetus would have a 1% chance of survival. He added that "the girl's mental health would be severely affected if she had a baby".
Members had discussed the options of allowing the girl to travel to Britain for a termination or ruling she must continue with her pregnancy.
The UK has one of the highest legal limits for abortion in Europe, at 24 weeks. A Romanian living in Britain offered to meet the abortion costs.
The girl's parents discovered she was pregnant earlier this month after they took her to a doctor because she appeared unwell.
She told doctors she had been raped by her uncle, who allegedly threatened her and has since disappeared.
There's something horrible about all this being discussed all over the world, actually. We should be discussing the uncle's alleged behavior and he's the one who should be in the court of world opinion, not this little girl.