Fla. Agency Gets Teen's Abortion Blocked
Aren't you so glad, that while sexual predators are raping and killing so many young girls in Florida, that instead of doing something about THAT, the Florida Social Services Agency is instead meddling in the rights and with the health of a 13 year old girl whose pregnancy would definitely be far more detrimental to her health than a safe and legal abortion.
It doesn't even matter that PARENTAL CONSENT IS NOT REQUIRED in Florida. So if this child was NOT in a state shelter, she could just go and have her abortion. But because she's disadvantaged, stuck in this state home, somehow these "we know better than YOU idiots have decided to put her health at risk. They charge that she's too immature to make that decision. Hello? She's too immature to decide whether she wants a baby, therefore she must have one? Who gets to take care of this baby that this immature girl who can't make her own decisions is suddenly mature enough to be a mother? Or is she just the incubator for someone's adoption?
Few things annoy me more than government meddling where they should not. But then, Florida wasn't happy enough dragging out the agony of everyone involved with Terry Schiavo, so why should anyone be surprised at this one?
Fla. Agency Gets Teen's Abortion Blocked: "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.-The state's social services agency was granted a court order to block an abortion for a pregnant 13-year-old girl living in a state shelter, prompting an emergency appeal Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union."
(Via FindLaw: Top Legal Headlines.)