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[Date & reference] 1997-05-22 Electronic Telegraph Father loses legal battle to stop wife's abortion By Auslan Cramb, Scotland Correspondent
A 28-YEAR-old man lost a court battle yesterday to prevent his estranged wife from aborting their unborn child. A senior judge said that the courts could not take the place of doctors in determining the grounds for an abortion. Cardinal Thomas Winning, leader of the 750,000-strong Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, said in a statement: "It is a sad day indeed. There is surely an extraordinary anomaly in the law when a father can be pursued by the Child Support Agency for maintenance of a child, but has no say in protecting the child's life in the womb."
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