Posted on 05/03/2005 9:50:07 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan
And laid a nice precedent for overturning age of consent laws while he did it.
There'll be hell they though if she gets her ears pierced.
Let's see, she too young to drive, drink, vote, buy cigarettes, get into an R rated movie, quit school, get a tattoo, get her ears pierced, go on a school field trip or take an aspirin without her parents'/guardians' permission but by G-d she is old enough to make a decision about whether she should have a ABORTION?
Someone please tell me that my tagline isn't true.
This is the state that lost a child for 18 months before they noticed. Turned out a caretaker killed her and stashed the body.
I think she ran away from the home and came back preggo.
Fla. Won't Appeal Abortion for 13 - Year - Old
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A judge ruled that a 13-year-old girl at the center of an abortion fight with the state may terminate her pregnancy, and Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday that the state will not appeal further.
Juvenile Judge Ronald Alvarez ruled Monday 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.
It was unclear Tuesday whether the girl, 14 weeks pregnant and known only as L.G. in court papers, had yet undergone an abortion. Calls to the girl's attorneys seeking an update were not immediately returned.
State Department of Children & Families spokeswoman Marilyn Munoz said the agency would ''respectfully comply with the court's decision.'' She declined to provide further details.
''We are working for the best interest of the young girl,'' Munoz said.
The teen became pregnant after running away from the DCF shelter where she lives.
''It's a tragedy that a 13-year-old girl would be in a vulnerable position where she could be made pregnant and it's a tragedy that her baby will be lost,'' Bush said in Tallahassee.
The department had argued that the girl 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.
The girl told the judge last week as part of the psychological evaluation process that she wanted an abortion, citing her age and no way to support a baby. The girl's ACLU attorneys argued that Florida law protects a minor's right to choose an abortion.
A measure is moving through the state Legislature to require notification of parents or guardians when girls seek abortion. In 2003, the Florida Supreme Court struck down a 1999 law requiring parents to be notified if their minor daughters seek an abortion.
I'm with you there. As a native Californian, I'm about ready to flee to Texas and ask for political asylum.
The teen has a mother who happened to lose custody thanks to those morons at DCF. The teen said she wants her mother to raise the child.
You and I have a diametrically opposed opinion of the meaning of the word 'right'.
Oh REALLY. This middle-aged man, who knows little or nothing about this 13-year-old girl, knows how she's going to feel 10, 20, 30 years from now about her "decision" to have an abortion? This is appalling.
I'll bet this little girl can hardly make a wise decision about what to have for lunch. 13-year-olds simply don't have the judgment, experience, or self-discipline even to choose a sandwich over a plate of Twinkies, much less make life-and-death decisions. We're seeing the result of our secular society's moral relativism, in which murder is okay if it's convenient for someone other than the victim.
The chip on your shoulder is so big it's a wonder you can get out of the chair.
So true and sad. Some are so hardened it doesn't ever seem to catch up with them or they won't admit it.
There also is a risk of being physically harmed by an abortion. Compared to other out-patient procedures, I don't know what the stats are.
Apparently the state had release her into the wild, she's thirteen and pregnant.
most likely the baby would have been taken from the girl and put up for adoption. Florida prohibits homosexual adoption so that would not be an issue.
It if very sad.
Chip on my shoulder? Yea, I expect our leaders to be a little more consistent when it comes to issues of "life".
Sad.
interesting...Is this now a basis for military service at 13? voting at 13? drinking, smoking, rated r movies, etc...by 13?
I'd like to know that, too. Why is this of no interest to the people busy deciding to let this child murder her baby? Why is the "father's" identity considered irrelevent? I know the feminists in this country have spent 40 years trying to persuade us that fathers have no importance, and apparently they've succeeded in Florida, but that doesn't mean they're right.
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