FL Court Rules Teenager Not 'Mature' Enough To Have Abortion - The Last Word - MSNBC
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why it is “psychotic” for a court to determine that a parentless 16-year-old is not “mature” enough to have an abortion, but is mature enough to be forced to become a mother. Dahlia Lithwick, MSNBC Law and Politics Analyst, discusses the “red flags” in the Florida court decision. - Aired on 08/17/2022.
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A teen is not "mature" enough to endure an abortion - which would allow her to be a teenager again - but "mature" enough to go through pregnancy, endure giving birth and raise a(nother) child??! 
And those are only the ones we hear about - so many women including young girls - are suffering unnecessarily...
SCOTUS speaks as if they're discussing mature women, but as we know from the case of the 10-year-old who made the news, it also affects those we consider children. 
It reminded me of an article that I read written by a candidate at the time of the 2020 election explaining why he was pro-choice. I didn't remember the name of the candidate, but another DUer found it for me, it was by Senator Gary Peters, Democrat from Michigan.
Turns out that in the '80s, he and his wife were expecting a much wanted child. But then something went wrong and the fetus was determined to be non viable. The only solution was to remove it as soon as possible since as it deteriorated, it could kill his wife. But no doctor or hospital would agree to the procedure since it was considered an abortion. His wife became deathly ill, but that didn't make a difference. At the last minute, someone they knew knew someone who finally agreed to the procedure and his wife survived. So this senator had been there and knew first-hand what could happen. So I remembered his story and imagined what could now happen to women who found themselves in the same position throughout the country. 