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was told she was not mature enough, according to a Florida court.

“Nobody, let alone teenagers, should have to watch the government decide what they can or can’t do with their own body. How can a child not be mature enough to get an abortion, but mature enough to singlehandedly raise a baby?” senior Autumn Kasl-Godley said.

Junior Tien Nguyen agrees: “if it was really children that those lawmakers care about, they would be doing more for childcare and support, the deeply broken adoption and foster system, and kids who are in broken homes. Forcing that 16-year-old to give birth means that the baby is likely going into the overwhelmed adoption system.”

Idaho enacted an abortion ban on August 25, which will make treatments for ectopic pregnancies very unclear. An ectopic pregnancy — where the fetus develops outside of the uterus — has little chance of survival, but the abortion ban will blur the lines of what treatments are not inducing miscarriage, and therefore illegal. Planned Parenthood of Idaho and the Biden administration are both suing to block the ban.