I wonder if the nanny staters of the world are proud of this one:
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – A judge has ruled that a 13-year-old girl at the center of an abortion fight with the state may terminate her pregnancy.
Juvenile Judge Ronald Alvarez on Monday ruled that the teen, who has been in state custody for four years, would not be physically or emotionally harmed by the procedure. Last week, Alvarez blocked the girl’s abortion until a psychological evaluation was completed.
“He ruled that she is competent, that she has made a decision and that she has a right to act on that decision,” said Howard Simon, executive director of the Florida American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the girl.
The state Department of Children & Families had argued that the girl, known only in court papers as L.G., was too young and immature to decide for herself to have an abortion. The agency said state law prohibited the agency from consenting to the procedure.Without the benefit of a time machine, any court finding the she will not be “physically or emotionally harmed by the procedure” is meaningless. That’s not a finding, that’s a hope. And one that is quite doubtful at that.
If the girl is has been in state custody sine age 9 it is a pretty sure bet she is messed up to begin with. — And the fact she managed to conceive at age 12 or 13 does not give me confidence she is responsible enough to make this decision….
And BTW, How THE HELL did a 12 year old get pregnant while in state custody?
And how many people have been fired/prosecuted over this?
Hillary was wrong. It doesn’t take “a village” to raises a child. It takes responsible parents. When the government can figure out how to fill all the potholes and eliminate crime, THEN maybe we can discuss them raising children.
WTF mate
As I am sure you know, adults can be irresponsible, too, especially if politics is a higher priority than an act of individual good.
Sweetcheeks, you state that you don’t know any pregnant girls at your middle school, may I then assume that you actually know next to nothing regarding sex, pregnancy, child birth and what can/or cannot a person endure.
Normal pregnancies are NOT 9 months of horrible pain. Otherwise we would have died out as a species long ago.
Would carrying to term the baby create some hardships for this girl? Most definitely. But she would not be killing a unique human being and believe me, honey, somewhere in the future when she gets married and gets pregnant with a planned for child, an abortion will come back to haunt her with “what ifs”.
I have FOUR daughters. When #3 was a 10th grader her best friend became pregnant. She was under a great deal of pressure from some of her more “sophisticated” peers to have an abortion. They tried to scare her with just the same propaganda you’ve swallowed about all the “pain” and “risk.” This girl was mature enough to decide to give her baby at chance at life AND to place her with parents who longed to have a baby of their own. Indeed, she definitely became a WOMAN at age 15 because she didn’t wander around whining about “well I’d rather the baby be DEAD then not with me” and “my body my choice”. This girl has gone on to be very successful and a new loving family was created by her mature value system that placed the interests of her child first.
Abortion is not like having a bikini wax. It has life- long consequences and should never ever be lightly considered. Some abortions are tragically necessary, but most are about inconvenience and while legal, are immoral.
You have a great deal of growing up and learning true maturity and the correct values to hold.
OK, WTF, Let’s try this one more time. There are varying degrees of punishment based upon the age/age gap of minors involved in sexual activity. Therefore, her situation may have been statutory rape, may have been one of the other charges I previously mentioned.
What troubles me is that you can’t grasp that EVEN CONSENTUAL SEX (that means both folks wanted to do it) is illegal if a minor is involved, even if both people involved are minors. “Rape” in this sense doesn’t mean she didn’t have a choice. That’s why that long word “statutory” is in front of it. “Statutory” means, literally “according to law.”
I know that at your age (and you’ve actually proven my point better than I could have), you feel like you have the real answers for your life. I sincerely hope you don’t get yourself into a mess before you gain some wisdom to go with all the knowledge you have. You see, I’ve never argued that this girl is stupid or a “bad girl” who deserves to pay for her wrongdoing. What I have said is that a thirteen year-old doesn’t have the ability to make this type of decision. That, my young and naive friend, is precisely why it is illegal for someone that age to have sex, drink, smoke, or drive.
Some abortions are tragically necessary, but most are about inconvenience and while legal, are immoral.
Please, let’s legislate morality. That would be fantastic.
Theocracy is tyranny.
Good point, mantis. Let’s not get into the business of legislating morality.
Want something? Take it.
Don’t like somebody? Kill them.
The opposite of your perverted definition of “theocracy” is anarchy.
Well i just sat down for 30 minutes and read all these comments. Some of you are real jerks. WTF mate is entitled to have her opinion, so let her. What makes you think he(or she?) is so wrong and you are right. Abortion is legal in many states. So that does not mean it is wrong. Some of you need to think about this right here. If this girl was really raped(which many of you are saying she was) would she really have to carry the memory of the time she was raped for nine months and through the rest of her life. I know killing her baby may not be the thing many of us want her to do, but she may have to at 13. If it were someone older and more mature then her, yes, I would say she should keep the baby. maybe this girl has big dreams in her life, and when the time comes for her to have a child, she’ll have a child. But before you make all the accustions look a lttle bit deeper into it. Read this for example, this girl felt she, too, needed to make her own decision.
Read this:
http://www.girl-mom.com/node/121