Steering clear of this thread? Good idea . . .
Its a messed up world we live in when as a parent you cannot give your teenage daughter an aspirin to take to school, yet she can obtain an abortion without your knowledge or consent.
This story has it all; an "Activist" judge legislating from the bench, the ACLU crying foul because a fetus might be forced to live and a child demanding to be allowed to play adult because she doesn't know better. A thirteen year old demands the right to discard her child, while I would do everything and give everything to get mine back . . .
Advanced Calculus seems easy by comparison.
Parent? What parent? The girl in this case has no parents who are in the picture. She is pregnant as a result of the negligence of DCF, and the same DCF is now trying to force her to continue the pregnancy against her wishes. As for the judge who claims she "lacks the maturity to make a decision", that's a preposterous legal argument. It is perfectly legal for her to have an abortion or to carry the pregnancy to term; would he also claim, if she was choosing the continue the pregnancy against DCF wishes, that she lacked the maturity to make THAT decision?
While a parent should have the legal right to block an abortion, unless competent medical authorities find that carrying the pregnancy to term would likely cause permanent physical harm or death (which may or not be the case with this 13 year old, but is certainly a real danger with younger pregnant girls), the state has no business making this decision one way or the other.
If I was a parent of a 13 year old girl, who'd been wrongly taken away from me (as is too often the case with these child "protection" agencies who are quick to yank kids from their parents based on anonymous allegations, or from parents who are homeschooling, or from parents who keep their guns loaded and readily accessible) I'd be livid if the state forced my daughter to continue a pregnancy -- she certainly wouldn't have continued it if whe was under my control. I'd sue the daylights out of everyone involved.