Woman jailed for taking drugs to abort birth within 1 week of expected delivery
The idea that access to sex-ed and abortions would be a panacea to all sexual ills is hilarious. People do evil things, they always will do.
A 14 year old girl recently stabbed and killed a 15 yr old boy and I highly doubt GAF would come out to blame society for that one.
Did anyone say that sex-ed and abortions would solve every problem related to sex everywhere?
If so I must have missed it, but it is impossible to argue that it would not have helped in this instance. If the girl's mother had acknowledged and accepted the pregnancy, the baby would not be dead. This is a fact. The entire reason the 14-year-old murdered her baby was to keep her mother from finding out, so if her mother had already acknowledged the pregnancy then the baby would not have been killed. This is the reality of the situation. It's pretty straight forward and simple.
A 14-year-old who cannot drive herself to get an abortion -- and likely can't get one without parental consent -- and likewise cannot drive herself to the hospital in secret to drop off her baby sees herself as having limited options. If she truly felt she
could not tell her mother, that what she had done was horrible and shameful and had to be kept a secret, then what do you think her options were? If she felt that what she had done was so awful, so unforgivable that she preferred to shove scissors inside of her body rather than face her mother, are you seriously arguing that this is the same thing as an adult making a conscious choice to cover up an extra-marital affair through an illegal abortion?
She could have left the child on a social services' doorstep no questions asked.
Instead she'll likely rot in jail because she'll be tried as an adult and has already admitted her guilt.
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how? People are seriously acting like a 14 year old can hide a baby in their backpack on the way to school and just drop it off somewhere.
That solution works for 16 year olds with cars. It really does! If she was old enough to drive, it would immediately be a different situation. But she isn't. I'm not sure what circumstances you're imagining where she transports herself to social services without the aide of any one of those adults in her life who seemingly didn't give enough of a shit to intervene.
it would have been better if the baby died when it was a lesser-developed fetus with a lesser-developed nervous system.
lots of displaced compassion in this thread. it's hard to murder a baby, but way worse to be a murdered baby.
society has to figure a way to reversibly sterilize kids at birth. when you're ready to have kid, you go get the procedure to reverse it.
Actually, I was horrified when I read the article and quite repulsed by her description of events.
But I'm also capable of enough empathy to think about how desperate a child -- because yes, in addition to being a child-murderer she is also a child herself -- would have to feel to do the things she did.
If she was a heartless, cold-blooded killer she would have done a better job hiding the body. But she wasn't. She was a desperate dumb kid.
It's possible to feel both disgust and empathy at the same time.
This is why I'm ok with teenage girls getting the morning after pill w/o parental consent. I had a heated discussion on fb about how it can take away parental rights. I would prefer the loss of parental rights than seeing something like this.
This.
