Legacy media hates anything that strengthens the family or infringes on sexual freedom. WaPo here blames this girl's situation on the state government when she is the product of a woefully dysfunctional family. A stronger family unit might have prevented this adolescent pregnancy in the first place.
A young teen gives birth.
Idaho’s parental consent law snags her care.
The Washington Post
The state’s new law requires parental permission for nearly all health care a minor receives. A 13-year-old’s pregnancy gets caught up in the consequences.
Mom-to-be Aleah was only 13 years old. And under a new Idaho law requiring parental consent for nearly all minors’ health care, Gustafson could be sued for treating her because the girl had been brought in by her great-aunt.
What followed were more than two frantic hours of trying to contact Aleah’s mother, who was living in a car, and her grandmother, who was the teen’s legal guardian. The grandmother finally gave verbal consent for the exam — from the Boise-area jail where she was incarcerated on drug charges.
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Aleah, who is being identified by only her first name because of her age, had been moved around her whole life. That included spells in foster care and a halfway house, separated from her six siblings. She only briefly lived with her mother several years ago. Her father had long been absent.
As for her baby’s teen dad, he now was in juvenile detention. The pair hadn’t thought about contraception, Aleah conceded, and she never considered an abortion, which would have required a trip to another state anyway.
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