The request for a 16 -year -old teenager to access abortion has been refused by a Florida court of appeal, where the practice remains legal. Having aroused the ire of certain American legislators, this decision continues to be criticized on social networks.
Le Monde with AFP
The hashtag “Boycottflorida” continued to shoot, Friday, August 19, less than a week after a Florida Court of Appeal decided to maintain a decision ruling that an orphan of 16 years was “not” Quite mature “to abort.
A court of appeal confirmed on Monday the decision of judge Jennifer Frydrychowicz, of the County of Escambia, to refuse the request for abortion of a young woman of 16 years, appointed by the pseudonym “Jane Doe 22- B “, on the pretext that she had not managed to prove” that she was mature enough to decide to put an end to her pregnancy “. “Jane Doe 22-B” was only ten weeks pregnant when she formulated her request from an abortion because she could not obtain the consent of at least one of her parents, both deceased, an essential condition for minors wishing abort in Florida.
On Wednesday, American elected officials had erected against what they consider a “war made to women” in Florida. “It is a dangerous and terrifying example,” said the elected democrat of this state in the south-east of the United States, Frankel laws, which judged the decision “unacceptable” and called to “fight for health, The security and freedom of women “.
“In what world is a 16 -year -old person too immature to have an abortion but mature enough to wear and raise a child?” Also questioned the elected democrat of Ohio, Joyce Beatty, supported by his colleagues Bonnie Watson Coleman from New Jersey and Katherine Clark of Massachussets.
in What World is a 16 year old too immature to receive an abortion but mature enough to commit to carrying and rais… https://t.co/rt1slwmvxr
– repbeatty (@rep. Joyce Beatty)
The case and the criticism targeting Florida have exceeded the borders of the state. The California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom sent this message on Thursday to “Jane Doe 22-B”: “California is not Florida. We have just passed laws that will protect you.”
This judgment occurs less than two months after the historical flip-flop of the American Supreme Court, which returned at the end of June to the constitutional guarantee to the right to abortion which it had established in 1973 by the judgment “ROE v. Wade “, letting the American states legislate freely on the question.
A dozen states have already taken the opportunity to ban abortion, most of the time without exception in the event of incest, rape or danger to the health of the mother. Women’s rights associations fear that almost half of the States will be affected in the long term. In Florida, Avanz is still legal until the fifteenth week after the last menstruation.