actually it makes a bit of sense. If a 13 year old can not give legal consent for becoming pregnant then she legally can not give legal consent to stop the pregnancy.
If you allow her to get an abortion by her "decision" then the age of consent is meaningless and it is open season on children.
The real serious issue here is whether this CHILD is making the decision or the aclu lawyer is "recovering memory" the decision for her.
The article does not mention who is the father. Was he over 18? Is so this is a criminal act.
I don't see any difference between the ACLU trying to make the decision for her, or DCF trying to make the decision for her. Neither entity has any legal standing to make the decision, except that if doctors determined that continuing the pregnancy posed a serious threat to the girl's health, then DCF would be required to see to it that she got the abortion, just as they have a legal duty to make sure she receives any other necessary medical treatment.
Under Florida law, she has the right to choose an abortion even if her parents object. The notion that DCF has greater rights over a child that even custodial parents would have is bizarre.
I gather from this and other articles about this case, that they don't know who the father is. Maybe the girl doesn't even know -- she could have been raped by a stranger and/or by multiple men -- a lot can happen to a 13 year old girl in a full month in which she's on the run and nobody is even looking for her -- pimps don't take long to find and exploit a girl in that situation.