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In reply to the discussion: Girl, 14, Sues Family to Stop Abortion [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)about teens being competent to make decisions about their own bodies in this ruling.
Childbearing is far more dangerous than abortion for a 14 year old, and a judge will have to take that into account prior to ruling.
I am pro-choice, and I am also someone that personally feels that childbearing and childrearing are devalued most by those that claim to be "pro-life" - they see it as a default, not a choice.
I would like to see how they get around the use of the word Choice, which they hate. I imagine they will hijack the rhetoric of the Pro-choice movement to make it look like false equivalency.
And, as I've stated before - this is all moot. There is no abortion provider in the country that would force her to have an abortion, unless she was unconscious and bleeding to death from her uterus - and that would be in an emergency room.
There is no such thing as forced abortion on the part of a legal abortion provider in this country. The fact that these lawyers are getting so many people to debate as though it was is a victory for them.