US elected officials on Wednesday criticized a “war on women” after a Florida appeals court upheld a ruling that a 16-year-old girl with deceased parents was “not mature enough” to have an abortion.
“In what world is a 16-year-old girl too immature to have an abortion but mature enough to have and raise a child?” Ohio Democrat Joyce Beatty questioned on Twitter, supported by her colleagues Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey and Katherine Clark of Massachusetts.
A “war on women”
“This is a dangerous and terrifying example of Florida’s war against women,” said the Democrat-elect of this state in the southeastern United States, Lois Frankel, who considered the decision “unacceptable” and called for “fighting for the health of women”. , safety and freedom”.
On social networks, many Internet users also highlighted the apparent inconsistency of the sentence and expressed their anger, some taking up a hashtag calling for a boycott of Florida.
An appeals court on Monday upheld Escambia County Judge Jennifer Frydrychowicz’s decision to deny a 16-year-old woman’s request for an abortion, known as “Jane Doe 22-B,” on the grounds that there was no tasted “that it was ripe”. enough to decide to terminate her pregnancy.”
The 10 week pregnant teenager
This ruling comes less than two months after the historic radical change of the US Supreme Court, which at the end of June reconsidered the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion that it had established in 1973 through the ruling “Roe v. Wade”, leaving the American states legislate freely on the matter.
A dozen states have already taken the opportunity to ban abortion, most of the time without exception in cases of incest, rape or danger to the health of the mother, and women’s rights associations fear that almost half of the states are affected in the long term. finished.
In Florida, abortion remains legal until the 15th week after the last period.
“Jane Doe 22-B” was only ten weeks pregnant when she made her request for an abortion because she was unable to obtain the consent of at least one of her parents, both deceased, an essential condition for minors to wish to have an abortion in Florida.
Source: BFM TV
