A Judge Tried to Deny a Teen's Abortion Partly Because of Her GPA
A Florida circuit judge tried to block a 17-year-old high school student from getting an abortion because, in part, the judge thought her GPA was too low.
The 17-year-old, known as “Jane Doe” in court papers, successfully appealed the circuit judge’s ruling this week. In a 2-1 ruling in the Florida Second District Court of Appeal, the panel of judges found that Doe was mature enough to earn what’s known as a “judicial bypass,” an arduous legal process that lets minors get abortions without involving their parents.
In his original ruling, Hillsborough County Circuit Court Judge Jared E. Smith focused on the fact that Doe had originally said she made “B” grades, but her current GPA is 2.0.
“Clearly, a ‘B’ average would not equate to a 2.0 GPA,” Smith wrote. Doe’s “testimony evinces either a lack of intelligence or credibility, either of which weigh against a finding of maturity pursuant to the statute.”
But a ruling written by Judge Darryl Casanueva and joined by Judge Susan Rothstein-Youakim pointed out that if Doe is making “Bs,” then her current GPA may not reflect her newer grades. And, in any case, “we observe a ‘C’ average demonstrates average intelligence for a high school student,” Casanueva wrote. “The evidence certainly did not show that her overall intelligence was ‘less than average.’”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akv7xg/judge-abortion-gpa
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Her current GPA couldn't possibly reflect her emotional stress due to all this......Nah....
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It's not a great idea to mislead some almost surely RW dickhead judge telling him you're a B student when your GPA is 2.0. You just give the jerk an excuse to be a jerk. That was a misstep for sure.
But I'm very glad the Appeals Court restored sanity to the proceedings 
GPA students" don't have sex and get pregnant, only lowering performing students. What a crock of BS. 
So happy Jane Doe won her case.
I was a lousy student with concentration issues, but I did graduate. I was able to retire in 2016 after working for 48 years.
Scholastically, I’m not a quickest study in the world but I wouldn’t be in the company of DU without a fair amount of intelligence. It’s obvious that this judge would have been willing to throw any amount of shit at the wall to get the result he wanted.
These assholes will stop at nothing. 
GPA high enough to have a child.
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