A pregnant 13-year-old has been blocked from having an abortion after state authorities in Florida won an emergency injunction against her, arguing that she was too immature to make such a decision.<\/p>\n
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“It would make no sense to have the baby,” said LG, who became pregnant after running away from her care home in January. “I’m 13, I’m in a shelter and I can’t get a job.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
sense, in this case, is not relevant to policy or law. apparently, the child in question (the mother) is a ward of the state, and her legal guardian, the state of florida, cannot consent to an abortion.<\/p>\n
item, the second,<\/p>\n
\nKenyan Women Take Risks with Backstreet Abortions<\/a> [reuters, 2005.04.29]<\/div>\nIt was futile to keep on wishing that the baby would disappear, so Anne decided to take fate into her own hands and a kitchen knife to her belly.<\/p>\n
The teen-age schoolgirl was rushed to a Kenyan hospital, her stomach a mess of stab wounds.<\/p>\n
Surgeons struggled to patch up her shredded uterus and stem the bleeding, but Anne died on the operating table — another statistic in Kenya where up to 2,000 women die every year because of complications arising from botched abortions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
welcome to kenya, florida.<\/p>\n
\nKenyan Women Take Risks with Backstreet Abortions<\/a> [reuters, 2005.04.29]<\/div>\nThe picture is amplified across sub-Saharan Africa where 30,000 women die each year from unsafe abortions, and millions more suffer life-long problems.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
For every death, 20-30 women suffer permanent damage to their uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes, intestines or bladder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
this is not my culture.<\/p>\n
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update<\/strong>: there’s another story<\/a> that managed to escape my attention. fortunately, there’s a lot of attention available on this internet, and ann bartow has it at sivacracy:<\/p>\n
“Flores resorted to an abortion using illegal drugs sent to her from Mexico and wound up in jail for four months under a rarely used state law that makes it a crime for a woman to perform an abortion on herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
update<\/strong> (2005.05.03): Fla. Judge OKs Abortion for 13-Year-Old<\/a> and Florida ends fight against abortion for 13-yr-old<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
since two little items came through my sphere of awareness, let’s go ahead and put them together. item, the first: Florida judge blocks abortion for 13-year-old [news.telegraph, 2005.05.01) A pregnant 13-year-old has been blocked from having an abortion after state authorities in Florida won an emergency injunction against her, arguing that she was too immature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}