Does that also include the real-life 13-year-old in Idaho who recently gave birth yet had no say in her own medical care? Her mother is AWOL, living in a car somewhere, and her grandmother legal guardian is in jail. Her great-aunt, with whom she lives (the father is also a teen and in juvie somewhere), could not give the hospital permission to examine the girl when she was having early contractions and Grandma had to be called in jail for that (I think they got ahold of her something like two hours later). After the baby's birth, this 13-year-old still had no say over her own medical care (legal guardianship was transferred to her aunt) yet she's responsible for medical decisions of her own baby because PARENT.
This fucking timeline is giving me a migraine...
Full story, if you haven't read it yet (sorry about the long link):
<...𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 13-𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟-𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑑. 𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑂ℎ𝑖𝑜 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑝. 𝐽𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑆𝑐ℎ𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑡, “𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛, 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠, 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒’𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔.”>
Does that also include the real-life 13-year-old in Idaho who recently gave birth yet had no say in her own medical care? Her mother is AWOL, living in a car somewhere, and her grandmother legal guardian is in jail. Her great-aunt, with whom she lives (the father is also a teen and in juvie somewhere), could not give the hospital permission to examine the girl when she was having early contractions and Grandma had to be called in jail for that (I think they got ahold of her something like two hours later). After the baby's birth, this 13-year-old still had no say over her own medical care (legal guardianship was transferred to her aunt) yet she's responsible for medical decisions of her own baby because PARENT.
This fucking timeline is giving me a migraine...
Full story, if you haven't read it yet (sorry about the long link):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/21/idaho-consent-law-teens-health-care/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzI5NDgzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzMwODY5MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Mjk0ODMyMDAsImp0aSI6ImFhMzFkZmQ3LWZjMWMtNDRiNi1iMTcxLWQ2YTE3N2ZiMGM5YSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vMjAyNC8xMC8yMS9pZGFoby1jb25zZW50LWxhdy10ZWVucy1oZWFsdGgtY2FyZS8ifQ.0wSiHeh5Q1Ced_GpJKd4Fb_4vYkM08qmlrDGcOE2BNk
And you wonder why we're writing dystopian fiction.
Jeezus H Christ.
Horrifying.