JD Vance: “I want more babies in the United States of America.” pic.twitter.com/Ghg22KjWX6
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That’s JD Vance telling the “March For Life” rally “I want more babies in the United States of America” And he’s going to get them even if it means forcing 10 year old rape victims to go through childbirth.
This is just heartbreaking. Imagine the trauma made all the more traumatic by sadists who want to punish little girls for being raped:
At least 100 Texas children aged 17 and younger got abortions in other states during the first year after Texas banned the procedure, including six aged 11 and under, according to the latest state data available.
The total is a nearly ninefold jump in the number of children getting out-of-state abortions from five years earlier and comes as virtually all abortions have ground to a halt in Texas under a ban that makes no exception for fetal abnormality, rape, or incest. Texas’ age of consent, when a person may legally consent to engage in sexual activity, is 17.
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In the years before the abortion ban took effect in August 2022, between 1,000 and 1,400 Texas minors received abortions in the state annually. There were none in 2023, data from Texas’ Health and Human Services department shows. At least 105 Texas children got an abortion out of state in 2023, the majority of them between the ages of 16 and 17.
The annual data, which was released this fall, is likely an undercount. Texas receives information about out-of-state abortions from a national data exchange called the State and Territorial Exchange of Vital Events, or STEVE, but an HHS spokesperson said not every state provides data on abortions.
The out-of-state data also only covers the first half of 2023. HHS officials did not respond to questions from Hearst Newspapers about why the rest of the data is missing or when it may be published. Data on out-of-state abortions from 2024 have not yet been released.
Look at this bullshit:
John Seago, president of Texas Right to Life, did not dispute the data and said that while it’s a “terrifying situation” when a very young person becomes pregnant and represents on many levels a “breakdown in protecting this minor,” the best outcome is a birth, no matter the age or circumstance.
“That doesn’t mean this individual needs to be a parent,” he said. “However, we can’t ignore what abortion is. It is using violence to take the life of a human being.”
No, they don’t need to be a parent, but it’s still necessary for a 10 year old rape victim to go through nine months of pregnancy and childbirth. The cruelty is beyond comprehension.
And it appears that it’s just going to get worse as the right wingers stifle information all over the country and move to outlaw the abortion pills.
With all else that’s going on, we shouldn’t forget that the war on women continues and it includes a war on little girls.