The state of Florida announced Tuesday it would not continue to try to block a 13-year-old girl from having an abortion. Since the girl was a foster child, the state had been claiming that as her legal guardian it had the right to deny her right to an abortion. Florida state law however allows minors to chose to have abortions. Howard Simon of the American Civil Liberties Union compared the state’s action with that of the Terri Schiavo case. Simon said “You’ve got to be blind not to see a pattern here. The pattern is the state’s hostility to the exercise of personal freedom … when that personal freedom is not consistent with the prevailing ideology of the state government.”