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Art trade with  the_cursed_rose_d.

The second picture is a gift!

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Hamilton County judge scolded for not allowing a woman to drive to Atlanta for an abortion she has a legal right to

A Hamilton County Criminal Court judge sent a 23-year-old pregnant woman's request to travel to Atlanta for an abortion back to the judge who rejected it with a stern message attached.

In a 10-page rebuke of General Sessions Court Judge Lila Statom issued Monday, Tom Greenholtz questioned whether Statom abused her judicial power and injected personal beliefs into her decision last week.

The issue first arose when the woman, who was 10-11 weeks pregnant with twins, was accepted into Statom's Mental Health Court program in February after pleading guilty to theft under $1,000, domestic assault and failure to appear charges in Sessions Court. Police and court records show the woman, who will not be named to protect her privacy, was previously ordered to attend Johnson Mental Health Center and came from a home that police routinely visited for disturbance calls. She has been on house arrest, outfitted with a GPS monitor since February and needed the procedure, Barrow said.

Court documents show that on March 7 the woman asked for permission to leave the state while on house arrest to get an abortion. But Statom denied the request, listing two reasons in an order filed the next day.

First, Statom said, the woman had been unreliable on house arrest so far. She cited an incident from February where she gave the woman permission to visit her mother in a local hospital. Though the woman returned, she didn't turn in proper documentation of that visit, Statom wrote.

Second, Statom said, the woman never told her she was pregnant or had an abortion appointment scheduled when she pleaded guilty and entered Mental Health Court. If the woman had revealed her plan to go out of state, Statom said, "this court would not have accepted her plea."

But those reasons were arbitrary and violated the woman's constitutional right to an abortion, Barrow argued in an appeal to Criminal Court. After receiving the appeal from the lower Sessions Court, Greenholtz said Statom's reasons, if true, were problematic and potentially ran afoul of ethics rules that have previously gotten judges in other states suspended.

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Well, I miss my tomstar childs. Because I don't have time to draw their AU, so I have idled tomstar for a long time.

Now I release them again!  Amber and Gianna!

I have been dissatisfied with the design of amber, so I spent a lot of time modifying her.

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