Are you this girl’s gynecologist or pediatrician?
I mean, this is the same man that, as governor, pardoned a serial rapist allowing him to rape and kill two more women. He ignored the pleas of the man’s victims and released him because he got a “raw deal.” And now he denies this. His son also apparently tortured and lynched a dog and he protected him from any…
Also even if somebody does want a baby, being able to choose the timing (and the father!) is so important. Most women who have abortions already have kids or go on to have them later. It’s not just an issue of not wanting kids.
His rationale for such a decision is two-fold
Seriously. Fuck his entire “what if” a woman feels guilt bullshit argument. Does he ever stop to think about, “what if” a woman develops postpartum depression and anxiety leading to suicide attempts. That happens to a huge amount of women. “What if” a woman can’t afford to house and adequately nourish the child? That…
I once met a woman who had a baby at age 10.
My thought exactly. YESITFUCKINGDOESTHANKYOUFORASKINGNEXTQUESTION.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, because it’s fucking TRUE: People like Huckabee only see women as honorary people because of their ability to give birth to actual people. Once a woman is pregnant, her true status as an incubator overrules her previous, honorary personhood.
Those who are running as representatives of the Republican party have the same views. They are in the positions they are in because most Republican voters agree with them.
Nothing irrational about that. It just shows how women are lesser than for guys like him. You’re ten years old, but pregnant? SORRY, birth mother is your only identity from now on. We are just wombs for Huckabee and his merry crew of women-haters, even as children.
Exactly. She had to have a c-section because her body wasn’t developed enough to deliver vaginally. These fucking assholes like to pretend that because giving birth is natural, its without risk. Its never without risk. This child was just forced to have an unnecessary procedure that could have killed her. What the…
The baby was delivered by planned C Section, precisely because labour and childbirth would have been so physically dangerous. That poor little girl.
This fucker’s kids strangle puppies for kicks. His sole redeeming characteristic is his mortality.
“There are two victims. One is the child; the other is that birth mother who often will go through extraordinary guilt years later when she begins to think through what happened — with the baby, with her. And again, there are no easy answers here.”
The implication is that she should feel guilty. After all the most important “person” is the unborn one, not the real child. The real child is just a fetus machine who’s life doesn’t count because she’s born and female.
Absolutely the opposite of that. A 10 year old’s body is not sufficiently developed to safely nurture and birth a child; the 10 year old is still a child herself. And to think she would feel guilt after moving away from a horribly traumatic situation, to NOT have to continue to be traumatized with birth and motherhood…
What a fucking garbage human. Also, with his connection to a statistically improbable number of child molesters, it’s no wonder he sort of glossed over the whole “raped 10 year old” bit. He disgusts me viscerally.
It’s not only cruel, it can be deadly. Ten year old children were never meant to carry a pregnancy. If it doesn’t kill, it can maim, including fistula and pelvic floor prolapse, which can cause permanent disability and render them unable to bear further babies. Not incidentally, it’s also deadlier for the baby and…
The Great Skyboss isn’t going to look favourably upon denying what a lot of medical practitioners would see as nessesary treatment to a trauma survivor. A ten year old’s body isn’t developed enough to act as an incubator without some sort of physical damage.