Florida Judges are Denying Teens Abortions for Having Bad Grades

Florida judges are not granting abortions to teens in Florida because of outrageous reasons like having a low GPA or not having a driver's license. Jayar Jackson, Ramesh Srinivasan, and AB Burns Tucker discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

Read more HERE: https://news.yahoo.com/teenagers-denied-abortions-because-florida-203054519.html

"Not having a driver's license. A poor GPA. Presenting as "a very young, immature woman." These were all reasons Florida judges denied underage teenagers seeking abortions in what Human Rights Watch said was a pattern of subjective decision-making that denied people care.

A new report by the advocacy organization detailed a number of situations where teenagers as young as 14 were denied an abortion due to Florida's laws around the procedure and the subjective decision-making process that some minors must go through to access care.

In Florida, where abortion is legal until 15 weeks of pregnancy, people under 18 must tell a parent or legal guardian that they are planning to get an abortion. Young people in the custody of the state who do not have access to a parent or legal guardian cannot rely on foster parents or caseworkers, according to state law, and instead have to petition a state trial court judge to obtain a judicial waiver. A study in the American Journal of Public Health found that about 15% of young people under 18 who seek abortion care in Florida, or about 200 people, use this method."

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