I ask ... How do we even know if the mother-to-be was sufficiently compos mentis to understand the seriousness of her situation?

We don't but neither do we know if the judge was fully briefed on the systems that exist to support mothers to be in that situation and what those who work in the field opinions were.

If a person's human rights can be denied to the degree that this woman's were, it is very important it should be subject to scrutiny

The problem with these news reports is that we only read what the reporters want us to read.

In the case of the Court of Protection we only know what they are prepared to let us know, that's the problem