This meme makes it seem like minors in Florida are “forced to give birth” and/or need a judge’s approval, which is misleading without context.
▪️In FL, a minor needs parental consent for an abortion. This isn’t unique to FL, 27 states require parental consent and 36 require parental involvement (FL is one of just 6 states which requires parental notification & consent, although not sure how you’d get consent w/out notification)
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/parental-involvement-minors-abortions
▪️These parental consent laws were in place long before the Dobbs decision overturned Roe, in fact this headline is from a case that happened in 2020, when Roe was still in place.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8gxq/judges-denied-14-year-old-abortion#
▪️This particular case involved a girl who said her mother lived in Guatemala & she lost touch with her father, thus couldn’t get consent. In this case, minors must get a judge to approve their abortion. The judge in this case had questions about the location of her mother & her credibility. It’s unknown if the girl ended up getting an abortion or not.
▪️Advocates may have a point about FL’s cumbersome legal process for minors without legal guardians being unfair, but this affects a tiny minority. The Vice article claims 342 have been denied by courts in the past 15 years, which is only 22/yr. And many get it changed on appeal.
▪️The reality is that, like most states, minors in FL are free to get abortions provided they get parental consent. And now 13 year olds can’t get social media accounts. Linking these two together as being hypocritical seems quite a stretch.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
