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Should a 10-Year-Old Girl Be Forced to Give Birth?

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I say absolutely not, but apparently the religious protesters in Brazil disagreed. Luckily for the 10-year-old girl and those supporting her, the protesters were unable to stop the procedure, in spite of their best efforts.


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle' undergoes abortion in Brazil | Daily Mail Online


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle, undergoes abortion in Brazil as crowd of religious protesters try to stop the procedure

By Faith Ridler For Mailonline
Published: 04:15 EDT, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 11:23 EDT, 19 August 2020

Article Quote:

"A crowd of religious protesters attempted to storm a hospital in Brazil to stop a ten-year-old girl from undergoing an abortion after she was 'raped by her uncle.'

The young girl, from Sao Mateus in Espirito Santo, had reportedly been rushed to hospital after complaining of abdominal pains. She was told she was pregnant, and confessed to medical staff that her uncle had allegedly been raping her since the age of six.

The child added she had never reported him to authorities as he had threatened her, Brazilian news website G1 reported. Her uncle, 33, has reportedly been indicted for rape and is on the run.

The ten-year-old underwent a procedure to terminate the pregnancy at a referral hospital in Pernambuco, where angry protesters gathered outside and tried to break into the clinic to stop it going ahead."



I'm just glad this little girl was able to have the abortion despite the protesters trying to break into the clinic to stop the procedure. She didn't need any further trauma adding to that which she has already suffered, and from which it will probably take her a long time to recover. Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's inhumane to try and force 10-year-old children to stay pregnant and give birth against their will?
 
I say absolutely not, but apparently the religious protesters in Brazil disagreed. Luckily for the 10-year-old girl, the protesters were unable to stop the procedure, in spite of their best efforts.


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle' undergoes abortion in Brazil | Daily Mail Online


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle, undergoes abortion in Brazil as crowd of religious protesters try to stop the procedure

By Faith Ridler For Mailonline
Published: 04:15 EDT, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 11:23 EDT, 19 August 2020

Article Quote:

"A crowd of religious protesters attempted to storm a hospital in Brazil to stop a ten-year-old girl from undergoing an abortion after she was 'raped by her uncle.'

The young girl, from Sao Mateus in Espirito Santo, had reportedly been rushed to hospital after complaining of abdominal pains. She was told she was pregnant, and confessed to medical staff that her uncle had allegedly been raping her since the age of six.

The child added she had never reported him to authorities as he had threatened her, Brazilian news website G1 reported. Her uncle, 33, has reportedly been indicted for rape and is on the run.

The ten-year-old underwent a procedure to terminate the pregnancy at a referral hospital in Pernambuco, where angry protesters gathered outside and tried to break into the clinic to stop it going ahead."



I'm just glad this little girl was able to have the abortion despite the protesters trying to break into the clinic to stop the procedure. She didn't need any further trauma adding to that which she has already suffered, and from which it will probably take her a long time to recover. Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's inhumane to try and force 10-year-old children to stay pregnant and give birth against their will?

Anti-choicers who do not support her right to an abortion need to understand that they want this girl to have bodily autonomy taken from her twice.

ALL womb owners have the right to a safe, legal, affordable abortion.
 
Anti-choicers who do not support her right to an abortion need to understand that they want this girl to have bodily autonomy taken from her twice. ALL womb owners have the right to a safe, legal, affordable abortion.

Totally agree. And that applies to 10-year-old girls too. Funny how these protesters missed the fact this girl is a child, isn't it. I guess her life isn't so important to them. :roll:
 
I say absolutely not, but apparently the religious protesters in Brazil disagreed. Luckily for the 10-year-old girl and those supporting her, the protesters were unable to stop the procedure, in spite of their best efforts.


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle' undergoes abortion in Brazil | Daily Mail Online


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle, undergoes abortion in Brazil as crowd of religious protesters try to stop the procedure

By Faith Ridler For Mailonline
Published: 04:15 EDT, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 11:23 EDT, 19 August 2020

Article Quote:

"A crowd of religious protesters attempted to storm a hospital in Brazil to stop a ten-year-old girl from undergoing an abortion after she was 'raped by her uncle.'

The young girl, from Sao Mateus in Espirito Santo, had reportedly been rushed to hospital after complaining of abdominal pains. She was told she was pregnant, and confessed to medical staff that her uncle had allegedly been raping her since the age of six.

The child added she had never reported him to authorities as he had threatened her, Brazilian news website G1 reported. Her uncle, 33, has reportedly been indicted for rape and is on the run.

The ten-year-old underwent a procedure to terminate the pregnancy at a referral hospital in Pernambuco, where angry protesters gathered outside and tried to break into the clinic to stop it going ahead."



I'm just glad this little girl was able to have the abortion despite the protesters trying to break into the clinic to stop the procedure. She didn't need any further trauma adding to that which she has already suffered, and from which it will probably take her a long time to recover. Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's inhumane to try and force 10-year-old children to stay pregnant and give birth against their will?


There is something seriously mentally wrong with people that think a 10 year old should carry to term a pregnancy that resulted from being repeatedly raped. The belief that the innocence of the unborn takes precedence over the life of the born, who has sinned by being part of a sin, borders on the criminally insane.
 
My position on this is that until theists can provide useful evidence that their denomination is correct (and not just reason that God/gods exist), we should ignore their views on social issues if their religion is influencing their decisions. Deplorable that this happens.
 
Anti-choicers who do not support her right to an abortion need to understand that they want this girl to have bodily autonomy taken from her twice.

This condensed version of an article from the New Republics speaks to just that double denial of bodily autonomy.

"Right now in Ohio, there is an a 11-year-old child who was abducted, raped, and made pregnant. It’s easy to see, by any sane moral measure, how a regime that forces a child to carry this pregnancy to full term and give birth is monstrous, heartless, and immoral. And it’s just as clear that a state that threatens to kill that child unless she bears that pregnancy to full term and gives birth is morally equivalent to the rapist—taking away that little girl’s agency, declaring that her pain is unimportant, that she has no right to decide who has access to her body.
But the crucial connective point, the point that gets shunted to the side in the culture-war rhetoric of abortion outrage, is this: It is equally monstrous to inflict the same punishment on a woman in her thirties who doesn’t want to be a mother just because the condom broke .... She, too, deserves bodily autonomy. She should not have to beg for it just because some religious extremists and Viagra-addled Republican lawmakers are frightened of women who have sex freely and without remorse. ...... forced-birth extremism*is the logical extension of rape culture.

The question of whether a fetus is a person is conveniently unanswerable. The question of whether a woman is a person, however, is not up for debate—and it is female personhood, not fetal personhood, that should decide the issue of basic bodily autonomy.

Two distinct legal persons with absolute rights to self-sovereignty cannot occupy the same body. Thanks to this deranged counter-moral calculus of moral deliberation, regimes of male supremacists and religious extremists around the world are now in agreement that a six-week-old group of cells is more of a person than any adult woman. After all, that group of cells might be the next Mozart, the next Mandela. The idea that a pregnant woman might be the next Mozart or the next Mandela, of course, does not compute.

The strategy of patriarchal restorationists on the evangelical right has long been to strip women of human dignity, and to force them to bear unwanted children. The point has never been that babies matter. The point is that women don’t.

The Criminalization of Women’s Bodies Is All About Conservative Male Power | The New Republic
 
I think everyone who gets pregnant before age 18 for any reason should have an abortion.
 
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A baby from rape is a gift from God.

If a child is pregnant by rape or incest, she should just turn that lemon situation into lemonade.

If the child is too young to consent to sex, then she is too young to consent to abortion.



/far right mode
 
I say absolutely not, but apparently the religious protesters in Brazil disagreed. Luckily for the 10-year-old girl and those supporting her, the protesters were unable to stop the procedure, in spite of their best efforts.


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle' undergoes abortion in Brazil | Daily Mail Online


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle, undergoes abortion in Brazil as crowd of religious protesters try to stop the procedure

By Faith Ridler For Mailonline
Published: 04:15 EDT, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 11:23 EDT, 19 August 2020

Article Quote:

"A crowd of religious protesters attempted to storm a hospital in Brazil to stop a ten-year-old girl from undergoing an abortion after she was 'raped by her uncle.'

The young girl, from Sao Mateus in Espirito Santo, had reportedly been rushed to hospital after complaining of abdominal pains. She was told she was pregnant, and confessed to medical staff that her uncle had allegedly been raping her since the age of six.

The child added she had never reported him to authorities as he had threatened her, Brazilian news website G1 reported. Her uncle, 33, has reportedly been indicted for rape and is on the run.

The ten-year-old underwent a procedure to terminate the pregnancy at a referral hospital in Pernambuco, where angry protesters gathered outside and tried to break into the clinic to stop it going ahead."



I'm just glad this little girl was able to have the abortion despite the protesters trying to break into the clinic to stop the procedure. She didn't need any further trauma adding to that which she has already suffered, and from which it will probably take her a long time to recover. Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's inhumane to try and force 10-year-old children to stay pregnant and give birth against their will?

Abortion is always wrong under all circumstances
 
I say absolutely not, but apparently the religious protesters in Brazil disagreed. Luckily for the 10-year-old girl and those supporting her, the protesters were unable to stop the procedure, in spite of their best efforts.


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle' undergoes abortion in Brazil | Daily Mail Online


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle, undergoes abortion in Brazil as crowd of religious protesters try to stop the procedure

By Faith Ridler For Mailonline
Published: 04:15 EDT, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 11:23 EDT, 19 August 2020

Article Quote:

"A crowd of religious protesters attempted to storm a hospital in Brazil to stop a ten-year-old girl from undergoing an abortion after she was 'raped by her uncle.'

The young girl, from Sao Mateus in Espirito Santo, had reportedly been rushed to hospital after complaining of abdominal pains. She was told she was pregnant, and confessed to medical staff that her uncle had allegedly been raping her since the age of six.

The child added she had never reported him to authorities as he had threatened her, Brazilian news website G1 reported. Her uncle, 33, has reportedly been indicted for rape and is on the run.

The ten-year-old underwent a procedure to terminate the pregnancy at a referral hospital in Pernambuco, where angry protesters gathered outside and tried to break into the clinic to stop it going ahead."



I'm just glad this little girl was able to have the abortion despite the protesters trying to break into the clinic to stop the procedure. She didn't need any further trauma adding to that which she has already suffered, and from which it will probably take her a long time to recover. Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's inhumane to try and force 10-year-old children to stay pregnant and give birth against their will?

Its a damn shame the whack jobs replaced Lula. Brazil is going to turn into El Salvador, then again Ohio is heading that way too.
 
Abortion is always wrong under all circumstances

You can have el salvador where young children are killed and put through even more misery because of something out of their control then you can explain how a mother should have just been left to die because of complications of birth but then again i know you wont.
 
angry protesters gathered outside and tried to break into the clinic to stop it going ahead

Brazil obviously has more remaining moral fiber than we do.
 
Brazil obviously has more remaining moral fiber than we do.

So all the sanctimoniously immoral are not in Brazil screaming against an abortion for a little 10 year old child that's been raped repeatedly, some of the saintly vicious are right here among us.
 
Abortion is always wrong under all circumstances

So a little 10year old giving birth because she was repeatedly raped it right under your circumstances? How do you explain that so that it makes sense to any person with normal intelligence?
 
It is sick and evil to think that a 10 year old rape victim should be forced to go through pregnancy and give birth. Absolutely disgusting.
 
I say absolutely not, but apparently the religious protesters in Brazil disagreed. Luckily for the 10-year-old girl and those supporting her, the protesters were unable to stop the procedure, in spite of their best efforts.


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle' undergoes abortion in Brazil | Daily Mail Online


Girl, ten, 'raped by her uncle, undergoes abortion in Brazil as crowd of religious protesters try to stop the procedure

By Faith Ridler For Mailonline
Published: 04:15 EDT, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 11:23 EDT, 19 August 2020

Article Quote:

"A crowd of religious protesters attempted to storm a hospital in Brazil to stop a ten-year-old girl from undergoing an abortion after she was 'raped by her uncle.'

The young girl, from Sao Mateus in Espirito Santo, had reportedly been rushed to hospital after complaining of abdominal pains. She was told she was pregnant, and confessed to medical staff that her uncle had allegedly been raping her since the age of six.

The child added she had never reported him to authorities as he had threatened her, Brazilian news website G1 reported. Her uncle, 33, has reportedly been indicted for rape and is on the run.

The ten-year-old underwent a procedure to terminate the pregnancy at a referral hospital in Pernambuco, where angry protesters gathered outside and tried to break into the clinic to stop it going ahead."



I'm just glad this little girl was able to have the abortion despite the protesters trying to break into the clinic to stop the procedure. She didn't need any further trauma adding to that which she has already suffered, and from which it will probably take her a long time to recover. Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's inhumane to try and force 10-year-old children to stay pregnant and give birth against their will?

This poor child. Raped from the age of 6 ???

I think the protesters are aiming their anger in the wrong direction.

!0 years old? She is a child growing herself. Then a pregnancy stealing her own nutrients?

She came into the hospital because of pain. How well was the rest of the pregnancy going to go.
 
There is something seriously mentally wrong with people that think a 10 year old should carry to term a pregnancy that resulted from being repeatedly raped. The belief that the innocence of the unborn takes precedence over the life of the born, who has sinned by being part of a sin, borders on the criminally insane.

I absolutely agree. And I think it's barbaric to force a 10-year-old girl to stay pregnant and give birth against her will.
 
The strategy of patriarchal restorationists on the evangelical right has long been to strip women of human dignity, and to force them to bear unwanted children. The point has never been that babies matter. The point is that women don’t.

OH yeah. That is so true of far-right religious guys, no matter what particular church they belong to. And I don't expect any of them to admit that publicly.
 
A baby from rape is a gift from God.

If a child is pregnant by rape or incest, she should just turn that lemon situation into lemonade.

If the child is too young to consent to sex, then she is too young to consent to abortion.

All of which are evidence of their callous indifference to children, especially if they are girls.
 
Brazil obviously has more remaining moral fiber than we do.

Hardly. :roll: Forcing a 10-year-old girl, a victim of rape and incest no less, to stay pregnant and give birth against her will is definitely not an example of "moral fiber." I'd call it something else entirely. The words "immoral" and "barbaric" spring to mind.
 
Brazil obviously has more remaining moral fiber than we do.

Yeah, a girl raped from age 6 to age 10....ends up pregnant (which is dangerous for her own health)....the angry protesters protesting a clinic to get her body to a healthier state by stopping a pregnancy that could be quite harmful....to you those angry protesters are righteous.

Probably better start with the man who raped her from age 6 to age 10.:(

This child was screwed on multiple levels well before she got pregnant.

Hell, the reason she went to the hospital was abdominal pain.:shock: Can you imagine what she would be going through as her pregnancy progressed? At a time a child is growing...her fetus is draining her own nutrients needed for her own healthy growth an development.
 
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