I understand that the 13 year old girl in a Florida group home who got pregnant and disclosed this to her caseworker, and the state insisted she carry her child to term because the Department of Children and Families was technically her guardian and by statute was prohibited from consenting to "sterilization, abortion or termination of life support." The girl went to court to be allowed to have an abortion. The NY Times has the story here. (randommentality/password)
Okay, regardless of how you feel about abortion in general, last I looked, it's physically dangerous for kids of twelve and thirteen to be giving birth, because they're just too d*mn young and their bodies aren't equipped to handle it. Thinking back, I weighed about 85-95 pounds at that age. Not to mention the mental trauma - the kid wouldn't be allowed to keep the baby, it would be placed in foster care the minute it got out of the hospital. So under what philosophy would this not fit under a "health of the mother" exception?
I'm seriously asking.
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