“If that judge doesn’t deem you mature enough to have an abortion, that judge is deeming you mature enough to have a child, and that is daunting.'
If a Florida bill becomes law, teenagers who don’t get permission from their parent or guardian to get an abortion will have to plead their case before a judge, presenting a problem that teenagers deemed too immature to have an abortion might be considered mature enough to have a child.
Terminating a pregnancy and carrying it to term are both life-altering decisions and ones that Ingrid Duran, the state legislative director for National Right to Life, said must include parents. She likened abortion to getting a tattoo, being given medicine in school or even getting married, all of which require parental consent, and told Newsweek that parents had a right to know what was going on with their minor daughters.
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Wellington, Florida, in April 2017. A bill proposed in Florida would require teens to obtain parental consent before having an abortion. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Jessica Goldberg, the senior attorney organizing manager of If/When/How, a national network that fights for reproductive justice, took issue with the fact that the majority of those factors can’t be measured on a standard rubric.
Pro-choice activists and anti-abortion activists at the March for Life, an annual event marking the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the U.S., outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on January 18. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
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