Age of Maturity

Steph (my wife) made a good point (different from both this point and the more common tirades against using foreign courts as a basis for US law) about the recent Supreme Court decision to disallow execution of people who committed their crimes before they were legal adults, on the grounds that they are not mature enough to know right from wrong until they reach the age of maturity: so how come they are mature enough to decide not only to have sex, but also to abort the baby without the consent of their parents, then?

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  • You have quite the catch there in a very very smart wife!~

  • That view was also expressed by Justice Scalia in the dissenting opinion when he called the court inconsistent with itself.

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