Hey ABC, I wrote a better headline for you:
Conservatives force child rape victim to become parent
This would be great campaign material for other parties. You see this? This is a kid who was forced to have a baby by your legislature. Vote them out!
As much as you might be right, I would find it distasteful to use a child who has just gone through such a traumatic experience to score political points.
Which is why conservatives do it.
Did you seriously just say that it’s distasteful to point out that real people are being actively, irreparably harmed by conservative policies? Bringing the receipts is NOT “scoring political points”, this is a tooth-and-nail fight for basic, fundamental human rights. Do NOT equate the two. They are not the same.
No, that isn’t what I said and I would appreciate it if you would direct your anger at the conservatives who caused this whole situation.
Put yourself in her situation for a moment. You are a middle school girl who has to endure the trauma of being raped. Not only that, but you find yourself pregnant. Your parents try to get an abortion for you, but the conservative lawmakers in your state have made the laws so confusing and complicated to enact a de jure ban that nobody can decide if you qualify or not. No doctor is willing to risk their license to do the morally right thing. And so, as a result, your whole life is now different because one man forced himself on you and a bunch of other men forced you to accept that.
This girl already has a daily reminder of that experience. Do you think she wants to see, at the very least this story, and at the most her name and picture, splashed across the news retelling this event over and over for months? She was raped against her will, forced to be a mother against her will, and you don’t see how forcing her to be the poster child of the results of Republican policy against her will might be adding more trauma?
It’s a very fine line between using a child for political points and raising awareness of the damage conservative policy inflicts. I’m not so sure making her your martyr doesn’t cross that line.
At the very least, if someone wants to bring this receipt, they should do what it appears no one fucken else has and ask her first if she consents.
Considering her age and the likelihood that she’ll become a life long target for hatred and accusations of being “a crisis actor” or some bullshit I’d agree to leave her, personally, out of it - if she wants to participate in a campaign in five years that’s different.
You can’t say that! That will offend the snowflakes!
Anyone who thinks it’s acceptable for any rape victim to be forced to carry their rapist’s child, can take the longest walk off the shortest pier they can find, then keep walking after that.
I don’t give a good goddamn fuck about their opinions.
You could reach out to one of the writers: Rachel Scott,Nadine El-Bawab,Karin Weinberg,Knez Walker,Stephanie Fasano andRachel Rosenbaum
Rapists get to choose who will bear their children, including children. Thank republicans for that.
Fuck anyone supporting the Republican party and their barbaric views on women. This is beyond cruel.
All you fucksticks posting anti Biden memes need to read this story and get it through your thick head what is at stake.
Most of the fucksticks are russian trolls, it’s all bad faith.
As conservatives cheer…
Aaaaand now they’ve shunned her and are insisting the baby is Satan’s spawn because the girl was a harlot for choosing to be raped. According to Deuteronomy, this mother and child are worthy of death. Hallelujah!
My conservative U.S. House rep insists that a good conservative man cannot be expected to resist a 12 year old girl. That’s just science, y’all!
Republicans, ladies and gentlemen.
A significant amount of republicans probably sincerely believe that this tragedy is worth “saving the lives of all the other babies that would have been murdered.”
Their moral calculus is foolish and predicated on questionable-at-best axioms. They are well meaning but functionally bad people.
Another significant chunk also adheres to “the cruelty is the point.” They are bad people.
Unfortunately, for various reasons, republicans have a disproportionate amount of power in the US.
Having a RAPED 13 year old girl give birth is BEAUTIFUL! It’s MUCH better then letting that 13 year old see two gay people in public!
Gay people in public? Think of the children!
Conservatives are definitely thinking of the children:
I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.
I’m sure it’s all the drag queens’ fault
Eww…
Now now, you can’t say something like that just because someone has different political opinions than you. I thought you were supposed to be tolerant???
/s
Raped twice. Once by some asshole, and again by a legislature full of them.
That’s unfair to assholes. Asshole is your neighbour who doesn’t care that his dog shits on your lawn. Rapist is a monster.
Mississippi has several conflicting laws and even experts, doctors and patients are having a hard time navigating them
Which is by design, so that outcomes like this happen.
“oh no, whatever shall we do…”, says lawmaker making it overly complicated to begin with.
And I am sure the state is going to step up and ensure this child and her child are well taken care of for the rest of their lives. /s
Mississippi has experts?
Who wants to bet Matt Walsh is furiously jacking it to this article?
And I’m sure conservatives will use this as further justification for more abortion bans by going “See! Thirteen year old can safely give birth!”
Every time I think we’ve reached the bottom, Republicans dig just a little deeper.
Mississippi or Alabama, Mississippi or Alabama, Mississippi!
Coulda codified Roe, but the filibuster was more important.
For 50 Republicans and about three Democrats in the Senate.
The Republicans are the big problem here.
Do you expect Republicans to protect the right to choose? We gave Democrats a majority for a reason. Preserving the filibuster wasn’t that reason.
I’d expect them to go along with not filibustering it because people will know that they blocked it, and vote for Democrats instead.
And instead we got enough Democrats deciding to work with Republicans to preserve the filibuster.
