Got Parental Consent? Part 2.
Nov. 30th, 2005 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asterrocIn Georgia, a woman 37-year-old woman statutorily raped a 15-year-old boy. She got pregnant from it, which allowed them to get married without his parents' consent under Georgia law.
However, the pregnancy is being used to charge the woman/mother-to-be/bride with statutory rape, while the boy/father-to-be/groom has been ordered to stay away from both the woman and his former guardian because he violated probation for a previous burglary charge when he skipped a day of school for his wedding.
Fucked up any?
Meanwhile, I wonder if Georgia has parental consent for abortion laws. If so, if in a situation like this, it were the minor who were the pregnant wife, and she got married, and then decided she wanted an abortion, would she get to choose, or would she need parental consent, or would her husband now be considered her guardian?
Georgia law allows children of any age to marry -- without parental consent -- if the bride-to-be is pregnant. The law dates back to the early 1960s and was written to prevent out-of-wedlock births.
(CNN/AP)
However, the pregnancy is being used to charge the woman/mother-to-be/bride with statutory rape, while the boy/father-to-be/groom has been ordered to stay away from both the woman and his former guardian because he violated probation for a previous burglary charge when he skipped a day of school for his wedding.
Fucked up any?
Meanwhile, I wonder if Georgia has parental consent for abortion laws. If so, if in a situation like this, it were the minor who were the pregnant wife, and she got married, and then decided she wanted an abortion, would she get to choose, or would she need parental consent, or would her husband now be considered her guardian?
