Florida Court Rules 16-Year-Old Too Immature for an Abortion but Mature Enough to Raise a Child
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It should go without saying, even though it apparently needs to be said, that it’s completely ****ing insane to declare that someone is not mature enough to make the decision to end a pregnancy, but is grown-up enough to go through the mentally and physically taxing work of growing and giving birth to a child as well as the lifelong, never-ending work of raising one. Republicans, of course, don’t actually care about what being pregnant entails, seeing women as mere reproductive vessels, and they definitely don’t give a shit about children once they’re born. On a somewhat tangential note, we’d also argue that knowing one is not ready to have a kid is actually a clear sign of maturity, setting aside the fact that just not wanting one should be reason enough.
