Florida Court Denies Pregnant Teen’s Request to Waive Legal Guardian Consent for Abortion
Autumn Katz, the Center’s interim director of litigation, was quoted in recent articles about a Florida court’s decision to deny a pregnant teen’s request to waive the state’s legal guardian consent requirement for abortion. In its opinion, a three-judge panel agreed with a state circuit judge that the teen was not “sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.”
“No one, including pregnant minors, should be forced to go to court and sacrifice their dignity just to access the critical health care they need,” Katz said. “In order to obtain services without parental involvement, Floridians would have to travel thousands of miles to a state like Virginia—a barrier that most young people, many of whom have very limited resources, will not be able to overcome.”
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