In a move that has more than just the pro-choice camp peeved, an Orlando, Florida, Circuit Court judge has ordered a 22-year-old mentally handicapped woman to carry to term the baby that resulted from her being sexually abused while in the care of a group home. The woman was first thrust into the spotlight about a month ago, when pro-life Governor Jeb Bush, fearing an abortion might be sought, said he wanted a guardian appointed. Not to the woman, but to the foetus.

Known to the courts and the press as J.D.S., the woman has the mental capacity of a pre-schooler and is unable to make decisions for herself. Somehow that has spawned in her appointed guardian the logic that, "completing the pregnancy/delivering the child is in J.D.S.'s best interest," she wrote to the judge presiding over the case.

Attempts to identify the woman's attacker have been delayed because the state needs J.D.S's approval to perform a DNA test, and she doesn't understand what that is.

» Scott Saxon