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TexasTowelie

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Sat Jul 15, 2017, 10:48 PM Jul 2017

Court Rules 12-year-old Girl Can Get Abortion [View all]

An Alabama state court says a 12-year-old girl who was impregnated by a relative will be allowed to get an abortion without a parent’s consent.

Yesterday, the Alabama Civil Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a girl seeking a waiver from a state law that requires minors receive parental consent before having an abortion. The decision says a relative currently charged with statutory rape got the girl pregnant, and the girl was removed from her home after her mother reacted violently. The girl doesn’t know her father.

The girl had sought a waiver from the parental consent law in order to receive an abortion, but a district attorney objected. A family court judge approved the waiver last month, and the appellate court has now agreed.

http://apr.org/post/court-rules-12yo-girl-can-get-abortion (short article)

The fact that the district attorney objected to the waiver granted by the lower court is sickening.

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