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Well here's a starting point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_S...

Well here's a starting point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_S... Lotta interesting stuff in there: > In California in 2017, a bill that would have ended child marriage (by raising the minimum age to 18) ran into opposition from legislators, the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood.[85] Well that just blew up the whole stereo

jeffbee 4y ago
That wikipedia article is kind of thinly sourced. The 2017 version of SB 273 just flatly outlawed marriage between two 17-year-old people. I can see why the ACLU objected. It does, in fact, intrude on civil liberties. The later revision that was enacted is here: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB273/id/1820759 https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB273/id/1820759
tdeck 4y ago
I tried to find out why Planned Parenthood opposed it and the original article is terrible: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Effort-to-bar-juvenile-marriages-in-California-11268497.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Effort-to-bar-ju... No specific mention of why. I couldn't find a statement from Planned Parenthood in my limited search. I found a publication "Child Marriage in the United States" by Lauren Fox" (https://scholarship.shu.edu/student_scholarship/966/ https://scholarship.shu.edu/student_scholarship/966/) that says this: > Planned Parenthood opposes banning child marriage because it believes that an age requirement would be a burden on a minor’s right to consent in other circumstances (particularly to consent to an abortion). Seems plausible, but the article it references seems to make no specific reference to planned Parenthood: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article149610849.html http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...

jeffbee 4y ago

That wikipedia article is kind of thinly sourced. The 2017 version of SB 273 just flatly outlawed marriage between two 17-year-old people. I can see why the ACLU objected. It does, in fact, intrude on civil liberties. The later revision that was enacted is here: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB273/id/1820759 https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB273/id/1820759

tdeck 4y ago

I tried to find out why Planned Parenthood opposed it and the original article is terrible: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Effort-to-bar-juvenile-marriages-in-California-11268497.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Effort-to-bar-ju... No specific mention of why. I couldn't find a statement from Planned Parenthood in my limited search. I found a publication "Child Marriage in the United States" by Lauren Fox" (https://scholarship.shu.edu/student_scholarship/966/ https://scholarship.shu.edu/student_scholarship/966/) that says this: > Planned Parenthood opposes banning child marriage because it believes that an age requirement would be a burden on a minor’s right to consent in other circumstances (particularly to consent to an abortion). Seems plausible, but the article it references seems to make no specific reference to planned Parenthood: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article149610849.html http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...