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[la_belle_laide]

Florida forces a child to have a child.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The state's social services agency was granted a court order to block an abortion for a pregnant 13-year-old girl living in a state shelter, prompting an emergency appeal Wednesday by the
American Civil Liberties Union...

...The girl learned she was pregnant two weeks ago and planned to have an abortion Tuesday. Her caseworker arranged for transportation and help. But the state Department of Children & Families asked a Palm Beach County juvenile judge Tuesday morning to block the procedure.

The state agency argued the 13 1/2-week pregnant girl — described as L.G. in court documents — is too young and immature to make an informed medical decision, according to the ACLU appeal.

I'm speechless.

Comments

[niqaeli]

Because... somehow she's too immature to make that decision, but apparently she is mature enough to be put through the hell of not just a pregnancy and childbirth but a *teen* pregnancy which physiologically is harder on both mother and child than an older person's pregnancy, not to mention the psychological crap.

Oh, wait, no, it's just that it's a woman's place to be barefoot and pregnant as soon as she can be.

The people blocking this need to die. Or, hey, be put through a horribly complicated pregnancy that they aren't allowed to end--especially the men.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Thank you for putting into words what I was too flabbergasted to write. That's it precisely.

[the-indy.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

Holy fucking shit. What are the THINKING!?

Thirded? n-thed?

[fierynotes.livejournal.com]

I think that a comedian named Professor Irwin Corey would insist that this hard-to-answer question is in fact two easy questions jammed together.

"What?" as in "could you repeat that? There's no FUCKING WAY I heard you right."

"Are they THINKING?" as in "obviously not."

Seriously, this decision is amazingly stupid. Anyone with a brain should be afraid to go anywhere these idiots, lest they and the idiots annihilate each other on contact.