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The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure

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[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 144 points 1 year ago (38 children)

This is what Republicans want for all of us.

If Republicans win the next election, they will institute a national abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incest.

If you want to stop this, the only way to do so is to vote for Biden. I really hope people understand this.

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago

What it's going to take is to vote in Biden, then whoever the Democrats run in 2028, 2032, 2036. Until enough of the Republican justices die in office that actual jurists can replace them.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 133 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course, now that the baby is out the pro-lifers say that they can both go die in a ditch

[–] twoshoes@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The unborn are a convenient group to advocate for

[–] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Literally have to do nothing other than talk

[–] Maiznieks@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is this what they want? Ruined lives? Fucking idiots.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, actually. Conservatism flourishes most when people are suffering, unhealthy and impoverished.

It is a plague in desperate need of a cure.

[–] veloxization@yiffit.net 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. The cruelty is the point.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The poor are supposed to be punished via all sorts or laws that keep them poor, for the "crime" of being poor.

Kinda reminds me how in my country - Portugal - during the Fascist Dictatorship abortion was illegal but the daughters of the wealthy (and you could only be wealthy if part of the regime, so these were the very same people who made the laws) could just go next door to Spain to get an abortion whilst the rest (almost all of them, as there was crushing poverty in the country back then) couldn't afford to.

Whilst the outright Evil of the people passing this kind of law is bad, it's the hypocrisy that really makes it trully disgusting.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s literally what they want. You think that girl’s going to stand up for herself at work when she’s got a kid at home?

[–] Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

well shit. you nailed it, i was that kid at home and my mother beat the shit out of me to vent her frustrations from the apathy work gave her. what's worse than being abused. seeing those around you foster that abuse because, lol single mother = prey.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

god has a plan or whatever

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In theory, they want the girl to give up the baby for adoption.

In practice, they instead often end up being shamed to keep it, and so on, and so on...

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

They want low wage workers. Now they have two, forever.

[–] Thisiswhatyoucallme@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the nurse's comment on finding a 13 yr old pregnant? "What have you been doing?" For fucks sake, I hate the world.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 1 year ago

Ah yes let's slut shame the 13 year olds instead of doing our due diligence as mandated reporters. Smh.

[–] Naura@startrek.website 39 points 1 year ago

and it's her rapist's child. a stranger nonetheless. These folks just lack humanity.

[–] NickCudawn@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

An abortion is not something you should need to be able to afford. It's not a luxury, it's a (often necessary) medical procedure. So fucked up, all of this. I hope the family can achieve some semblance of happiness some day

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like a Republican's dream

[–] jannis@feddit.de 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't they like to marry the girl to her rapist, because sex outside of marriage is a sin or something?

[–] 2CatsOneBowl@aussie.zone 27 points 1 year ago

And it gives them an excuse to marry kids legally

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

The baby's father is so proud he gave expensive cigars to all his fellow GOP congressmen.

[–] Aobing@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

I am embarrassed to be American

[–] DuncanTDP@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is just completely disgusting. When everyone failed her the law wasn't even on her side. Say what you want about abortions in general, but the audacity that people have to make getting abortions under rape or complications political is just disgusting. My heart truly goes out to this little girl, and her family, but especially the little girl. I can't imagine the amount of life altering trauma she has gone through, and how this is going to affect her for the rest of her life. This shouldn't happen to anyone. What the fuck is wrong with people.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Wow that is some serious bullshit right there. For the rest of this girls life she is going to have to share custody with the man that raped her.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don’t know who it was. It was a complete stranger who raped her when she was playing in her yard. The police haven’t even investigated. He’d have to come forward first.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

is it worth it Republicans?

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 year ago

This is literally what they wanted, of course it's worth it.

They think they haven't gone far enough yet, not that the price to pay is too high. Not like they're paying the price themselves, and they're incapable of feeling empathy for people like this girl who are affected by their psychopathic legislation. If they themselves or anyone in their immediate family needs an abortion, they'll go get one somewhere else because they're good people and they have a good reason for it, unlike all those woke socialist Nazi sluts

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[–] nightscout@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To understand why this is happening, you have to go back in history to the end of the slave trade. When the ability to kidnap people from Africa and bring them back to enslave them was legally ended, the white enslavers realized that the only way they could keep slavery going was to force people to breed more slaves. Google that history. It is utterly abhorrent but necessary to understand where the Republican Party is coming from today.

Since the end of slavery, a certain contingent in the U.S. has never gotten over the fact that they couldn't legally have a sub-class of citizens that they could use for free or nearly-free labor. So they kept trying to find other ways to keep people oppressed, and they expanded that oppression beyond just black people and to any of the "less desirable" groups. Think not just Black people, but also Irish, immigrants, Appalachia. They pit these groups against one another because divided people are easier to control. But the goal is the same - have large groups of people poor for generations who have no other option but to work for slave wages and keep the people at the top very, very rich.

Slavery in the U.S. was a huge economic force, one that a certain contingent (the very wealthy) never got over losing. The next best thing was to create whole groups of people who are desperate enough to work for almost nothing. That's what we have in this country now. And it works best if those people are constantly putting out more children. That keeps them even more stuck and more desperate, and it keeps a steady supply of cheap labor coming.

It's no coincidence that they want abortion ended but also want to ensure those same people are continually subjected to sub-standard education, that those same people are "allowed" to send their kids to work (defeating years of progress through child labor laws), that those people are also unable to access higher education, government benefits, or virtually anything that could potentially make their lives better.

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[–] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago

Makes me sick, fuck that hellhole of a country.

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