I smell red herring.
susie
Just one?
Consider the fisherman...
IN retrospect, it doesn’t seem to be in tune with the discussion. It was just something on my mind, that here we have an example of a court considering undue pressure on a 16-year-old making a decision, but when it comes to abortion we assume that a 16-year-old had no pressure at all, and simply do whatever she asks (unless she asks to keep her child, then we “counsel” her to change her mind).
At the time I posted, nobody had posted anything else about the story, and I thought it might be a more interesting way to frame the conversation to be about whether a 16-year-old should be allowed to choose her attorney, or not.
That would have been a more interesting discussion than what ensued in it’s place.