Protect Reproductive Freedom, End Underage Marriage, and Improve and Mandate Reproductive Education

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Please do all that you can to protect reproductive rights and freedoms, and the clinics that serve the poor and any person who shows up in need of whatever ob/gyn services they need. It's easy to forget that the same service provided to the financially stable are ignored by protesters from the ""pro-life"" group.  An increase in unwanted or unhealthy newborns  among those who cannot afford to take care of them, or are uninterested or unable to do so, serves no one. Our current child placement system for surrendered youth is not in such excellent shape so as to be able to handle a huge influx in need. CPS will require much more funding. Programs such as WIC and CHIP will require a massive increase in funds. Taxpayers will face a huge financial burden to raise the surrendered infants to adulthood. 

But please do vote for mandatory protections and full and complete coverage for every pregnant person. No matter if the pregnancy is healthy or a complete attack on the individual, there should be no limit to the care that person receives to get back to healthy. This includes mental and emotional health as well. 100% coverage for all, no matter the outcome, from the moment the pregnancy test is positive. 

And please create a national minimum marital age no lower than the adulthood age to be held accountable for signed contracts, purchase alcohol, get a tattoo without parental approval, and rent automobiles. Anyone not old enough, mature enough, or responsible enough to do THOSE things is certainly not prepared for marriage, civil unions, or other lifetime binding commitments between consenting  adults. It's time to stop bad parents from selling off their "child brides" in this country. And to prevent them from having their children impregnated to get around current regulations. 

It is time to put more effort into educating people about consent. Especially young men. It's time to create far better reproductive health classes with better biological research and facts, and for the Department of Education to take that seriously and require such knowledge be assessed and verified before a child is permitted to go on to high school, or be eligible for a GED, or a seat as an elected official! There is a serious gap in education and knowledge among many elected officials in America. They're being asked to pass laws regulating something which they might have had no or incorrect education about, and that must be stopped. 

Please vote to give science a chance to help our country before many citizens are alienated by foolish laws with no root in provable or true reality. 

This Is Legal Before Age 18 in the USA

A list of what is illegal to do before age 18 in the USA:

• Vote in the General election (Twenty-sixth Amendment)
• Join the military (Minimum age for enlistment in the United States military is 17 with parental consent, or 18)
• Get a home mortgage (Too young to legally sign contracts.)
• Get a credit card (Too young to legally sign contracts.)
• Drop out of school (In most states, age 16 in some.)
• Buy cigarettes/ tobacco (Synar Amendment)
• Purchase alcohol (National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984)
• Adopt ("To ensure that the older adult is healthy enough to raise a child" - adoption.org/age-limit-adoption)

A list of what is legal to do before age 18 in the USA:

• Get married (Without parental consent in Mississippi at age 15, or any age with parental consent.)
• Have a baby (No link for this one, because there simply isn't a law with a minimum age.)

Is marriage important enough that it should only be entered into by people who are legally considered old enough to make the other decisions listed above? You can't pick a member of Congress, but you can select a spouse? To be clear, marriages are supposed to last longer than a Congress term.

• "The rational part of a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed and won’t be until age 25 or so." - The University of Rochester Medical Center 
• "allowed to make adult decisions, without fully mature brains" - mentalhealthdaily
• "Research suggests that most human brains take about 25 years to develop" - bigthink
• "What is the prefrontal cortex and what does it do?" - neuroscientificallychallenged

So we have people getting married and having babies, being responsible for raising someone, but they don't have the fully developed brain needed to make decisions. And we KNOW they shouldn't be making decisions that will impact their spouse or child, but it's okay because it's legal.

I want to live in a world where people stop fighting for children to have children. There is no shortage of adoptable children. If we run out, okay, then let's discuss how to deal with that. Saying it's illegal for a minor to NOT have a baby if one is forced upon them is foolish. Even if the person consented to making a baby, science has proven they didn't have the brain development necessary to make that choice. Maybe the prefrontal cortexes of those passing these laws needs to be checked.

What I'm saying is that, with very rare exception, no minor should be legally allowed to get married or have any part in the pregnancy process. Sterilizing drugs should be required (except for health reasons) for all minors. And yes, maybe the minimum age of adulthood needs to be raised, and college or some other life training could be required from age 18 to 25.