A 16-year-old girl with mental health difficulties has given birth naturally after a judge gave doctors the go-ahead to perform a caesarean section without her consent, lawyers said.
Mr Justice Cobb said it would be lawful for specialists to operate on the teenager, who is in council care. He said doctors should make “one last” attempt to induce but ruled that performing a caesarean section would be lawful if necessary.
The judge made a ruling at a public hearing in the Court of Protection in London on Friday but embargoed reporting until the baby had been born.
