Our Executive Director Fraidy wrote an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News this week asking one thing: For Maine Governor Janet Mills to veto LD545, the well-meaning bill ambitiously titled ‘An Act to Ban Child Marriage.’ As she says in her article:
“In fact, the bill would ban child marriage only for those 15 and younger. Children aged 16 and 17 would still be allowed to marry with parental ‘consent,’ even though national marriage license data we’ve compiled…shows some 96 percent of the children who married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010 were age 16 or 17.”
You can read the full op-ed here, then email and/or tweet at Governor Mills (@GovJanetMills) to ask her to please veto LD545, which fails to protect Maine’s most vulnerable children from a human rights abuse.
