Kingston-based doctor, 54-year-old Lloyd Brooks has been charged with procuring abortion.
Brooks who lives in St Andrew was charged on Friday.
Detectives of from the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse say they received a report on Tuesday that the doctor carried out an abortion on a minor.
Brooks who was questioned in the presence of his attorney before being charged, is scheduled to appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court next Wednesday.
Free up the abortion. No 10-15 year should be allowed to have a child.
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Met, is this the same story where they said the teen is battling for her life and was 5 months pregnant when she went for the procedure? I read somewhere else that they said she went with a friend. If this is the same case that doctor needs to lose him license.
I thought abortion was or is illegal in Jamaica. Suh I wonda is wa him ah guh ah court fa? Fi the abortion or for performing the procedure on a minor?
Bwoy….. :hoax2 I kinda see wid dis lickle gal ya situation enuh…Them really should not be having sex, but then again, who ago tek the job fi watch dem pum? It better she dash weh de ole unwanted pickney more than she blightid har future, breed fi some ole numbscum, doan have a father fi har pickney, deh bout a batta batta and a tun parasite pon people. On de other hand, unu need fi use contraceptives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#FREE UP DOC, HIM JUST A HELP OUT A SITUATION#
#HOPE YOU DOAN GO BACK GO BREED AGAIN AFTA DIS#
#PEOPLE HAVE TO BE PRACTICAL THESE DAYS#
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Met O, me put this up fi help out since you so quiet today.
Grounds on which abortion is permitted:
To save the life of the woman Yes
To preserve physical health Yes
To preserve mental health Yes
Rape or incest No
Foetal impairment No
Economic or social reasons No
Available on request No
Additional requirements:
The spouse’s consent is required. In order to perform an abortion on the grounds of mental health, foetal impairment, rape or incest, the approval of two specialists must be obtained.
*OMITTED DATA: (Phantom Phoenix)
Abortion is illegal in Jamaica under the Offences Against the Person Act of 1864, which is based on the 1861 English Act of the same title. Under the Act, any person who, intending to procure a miscarriage, regardless of whether the woman is with child, unlawfully administers to her any poison or noxious thing or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means to the same end is subject to life imprisonment, with or without hard labour. A pregnant woman who acts in the same way with respect to her own pregnancy is subject to the same penalty.
General criminal law principles of necessity, however, allow an abortion to be performed to save the life of the pregnant woman. Moreover, Jamaica, like a number of Commonwealth countries whose legal systems are based on English common law, follows the holding of the 1938 English Rex v. Bourne decision in determining whether an abortion performed for health reasons is lawful. In the Bourne decision, a physician was acquitted of the offence of performing an abortion in the case of a woman who had been raped. The court ruled that the abortion was lawful because it had been performed to prevent the woman from becoming “a physical and mental wreck”, thus setting a precedent for future abortion cases performed on the grounds of preserving the pregnant woman’s physical and mental health.
Physicians in Jamaica are usually hesitant to perform an abortion, as the law affords them no real protection, and many of them fear the possibility of prosecution. A survey conducted in 1973 found that 84 per cent of all physicians and 88 per cent of nurses and midwives in Jamaica favoured a more liberal abortion law. The majority of survey respondents supported offering the provision of abortions under the auspices of the National Family Planning Board, particularly as a backup method in the event of contraceptive failure.
*OMITTED DATA: (Phantom Phoenix)
SOURCE: un.org/esa/population/…/abortion/doc/jamaica.doc
Busy oo
As long as you good O. See me put up the relevant parts of a document to answer the abortion question and the physician’s role/responsibilities.
I must say that the law seems like it was written to ensure that the plantations/great houses weren’t short “staff” or deprived of heirs 😀
You soon hear seh him is the baby father. Dam pedophile!!!!! Met check you email and you can post if you will.