https://nitter.net/mjs_DC/status/1559541026695544833?s=19
The people responsible for this decision should be burned alive
We will have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
Giving some sort of relief to underage parents who are forced to give birth might be a worthwhile mutual aid project. Or just to underage parents in general. Sucks it’s necessary, but it is necessary and any state function which the state shirks responsibility for will inevitably be picked up by a non-state actor. Better us than the christofascists. And yes, we will absolutely be seeing the same groups who worked for decades to overturn Roe now turning around and offering consolation to vulnerable underage parents whose pain directly results from their policies. At least, they’ll help the white parents.
offering consolation to vulnerable underage parents
I honestly do not think that's the case. They've operated fake crisis pregnancy centers for decades that offer little or no actual aid.
Well yeah, “consolation” is doing some heavy lifting there. They will frame what they’re doing as guidance and assistance
Minors in the United States are barely considered humans. They are often considered property of their guardians and public schools have the ability to curtail so many basic rights on such flimsy grounds as behavior being “distracting”. There are a slew of Supreme Court cases challenging minor’s human rights and the minors usually lose. Minors are also one of the most consistently abused and neglected demographics. If minors had any sort of consciousness about themselves as a group, teenagers would be by far the most dangerous demographic to fuck with. The nature of age is that there are so many practical barriers to achieving that consciousness, but many of those barriers are absolute paper tigers, especially with the support of even a few adults.
I fully believe the voting age should be lowered to 13, and age to run for office down to 16 (or some sort of parallel system of “children’s councils” that have real political power). I would trust a random 16 year old in literally any political office over a random 70 year old.
Young people, including minors, should have more political power than other groups, not less, since they have to live with the consequences. If you’re 80 I hardly even think you should be allowed to vote, let alone run for office.
Don’t order food for the group when you’re about to leave the table.
yeah being a minor in the USA is brutal. They throw you on the roads and then dont let you drink for 5 more years lol
And yet I couldn’t reasonably argue for raising the driving age either since you need to drive to do anything in this god forsaken country. For teenagers to have anywhere near the level of autonomy they should have they have to be able to drive.
Yeah, I’ve absolutely hated the idea that cars represent freedom. You are required to have one. Freedom my ass
To me cars represent the opposite of freedom. To even drive one you need to be old enough and not disabled. You need to afford to buy one and maintain it. If you use it to go somewhere you need to make sure you have a place to park. And you’re not free to do what you want when you get to your destination since you need to be sober to drive home.
True freedom is stumbling drunk onto the subway at 2am and getting home for $3.
Me, covered in blood and rope burns with a broken nose for the nth time. Police took me back to my dad every time and only helped when I turned 18, altho they still wouldn't arrest the dude
Only if we also codify wedgies for young Republicans. We need some kind of balance for suit-wearing 15 year old neocons that will inevitably get their campaigns funded millions of dollars from those 70year old war criminal billionaires.
those barriers are absolute paper tigers
Get on Tiktok and start radicalizing zoomers.
The state constitution upholds an affirmative right to privacy, from which prior courts had inferred a right to abortion.
Unfortunately, the current courts don't seem to care. And by the time you've worked your way through the entire legal system, your kid will have been snatched up by a paranoid understaffed CPS and dumped into the hellishly dysfunctional foster system, so it will hardly matter.
I believe the answer is fuck you that's why
uj idk but I don't think im far off
It's unforgivable that DeJoy is still wrecking the post, but wrecking the post has always been a bipartisan goal.
At the risk of eating the onion, the first part of your statement is not correct. A 16 y/o cannot buy an AR15 (nor any firearm) in Florida or any other US state.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-pregnancy
Complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death for 15–19-year-old girls globally.
I'm sure this Kkkrakkka nation will come up with a fair and sane metric to determine that
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a less "eugenics" version would be more support for parents, especially first time parents. Things like paid parental leave, free health checkups, access to resources like social councellors and workshops. And of course, access to abortion.
Stuff that other countries do basically.
not mature to get an abortion but mature enough to birth and raise a child
