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shamrock_uk · 04-30-2005, 04:38 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4500245.stm

This child has been blocked from having an abortion because she apparently lacks the maturity to make such a decision.

This is despite Florida abortion law not requiring parental consent - the Florida state government intervened and asked a judge to rule on it.

1) Why does the government insist on interfering in people's lives??
2) If she's not mature enough to decide whether she wants an abortion, she sure isn't mature enough to have a baby! This will ruin her life and ruin the life of the child who will have the fun experience of being shuffled from foster home to foster home.
3) Isn't it cruel to force her to give birth? A rather painful and traumatic event at the best of times, I doubt she's even developed enough for it to go as easily as it might.
4) Wasn't this precisely the sort of interference that was made illegal by Roe vs Wade?
5) By slapping temporary injuctions on her, surely the baby moves ever and ever closer to that 'partial birth' point decided in 2003 after which it would be illegal to abort anyway?

[ 04-30-2005, 04:40 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]

04-30-2005, 04:38 AM	#1
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4500245.stm This child has been blocked from having an abortion because she apparently lacks the maturity to make such a decision. This is despite Florida abortion law not requiring parental consent - the Florida state government intervened and asked a judge to rule on it. 1) Why does the government insist on interfering in people's lives?? 2) If she's not mature enough to decide whether she wants an abortion, she sure isn't mature enough to have a baby! This will ruin her life and ruin the life of the child who will have the fun experience of being shuffled from foster home to foster home. 3) Isn't it cruel to force her to give birth? A rather painful and traumatic event at the best of times, I doubt she's even developed enough for it to go as easily as it might. 4) Wasn't this precisely the sort of interference that was made illegal by Roe vs Wade? 5) By slapping temporary injuctions on her, surely the baby moves ever and ever closer to that 'partial birth' point decided in 2003 after which it would be illegal to abort anyway? [ 04-30-2005, 04:40 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]