Florida Court Rules 16-Year-Old Too Immature for an Abortion but Mature Enough to Raise a Child

glamour.com:

,” and thus should be forced to create and raise a human being, which she apparently is mature enough to do. The upheld a previous decision by Circuit Judge Jennifer Frydrychowicz, , who blocked the girl, referred to as Jane Doe 22-B in court papers, from receiving the procedure without the consent of a parent or guardian.

In their ruling this week, judges Harvey Jay, Rachel Nordby, and Scott Makar claimed that the teen “had not established by clear and convincing evidence that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.

Having reviewed the record,” the trio added, “we affirm the trial court’s decision under the deferential standard of appellate review set out [in the consent law].” In her petition to obtain an abortion, the teen wrote that she “is not ready to have a baby,” doesn’t have a job, is “still in school,” and that the father is unable to assist her.It should go without saying, even though it apparently needs to be said, that it’s completely illogical to declare that someone is not mature enough to make the decision to , 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.

People who oppose pro-choice laws, of course, don’t actually care about what being pregnant entails, seeing women as mere reproductive vessels, and they definitely don’t seem to give a shit about children once they’re born.