If you're old enough to get pregnant you are old enough to make decisions about contraception and abortion.
Any woman who gets pregnant is considered to be old enough to choose to have an abortion if she so desires. Our position is that if you are old enough to get pregnant, you are old enough to decide to terminate the pregnancy. The decision to reproduce or not to reproduce has life altering consequences and even though it is a hard decision for anyone, especially a minor, to make, it is a matter of that the individual has to live with the consequences of that decision and it is therefore up to her to make that choice. If the choice is the wrong choice, it is still her wrong choice to make. If a girl is 10 years old and she's pregnant it's still her choice to make under Church of Reality doctrine.
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