Are your girls and granddaughters on the pill yet?
If you don't like the idea of elementary and middle school girls giving birth next summer or in the next few years, then birth control may be the only viable solution in Texas and other highly restrictive locations.
I came across an eye-catching headline this morning.
One Texas town is resisting."
Caroline
Kitchener of the Washington Post (https://wapo.st/3L6AGWn)
tells the story of this new approach to end “abortion trafficking.”
Not
everyone is on board with the new ways to shut down all abortions even though
they may be staunchly antiabortion as this quote illustrates:
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“I hate abortion,” she said. “I’m a
Jesus lover like all of you in here.”
Still, she said, she couldn’t help
thinking about the time in college when she picked up a friend from an abortion
clinic — and how someone might have tried to punish her under this law.
“It’s overreaching,” she said. “We’re
talking about people here.”
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The
journalist captures a key psychological factor when she addresses the fear
factor associated with threats of lawsuits and restrictive laws aimed at ending
what the antiabortionists call "abortion trafficking."
Those of us who have worked in schools and hospitals know girls and young teens get pregnant. On our morning walk, my wife and I talked about the age of our granddaughters—one just began her second year in middle school—hard to believe!
Perhaps it
was the conversation that made the headline salient. Anyway, I looked to see if
anyone was writing about young girls and early teens. It turns out, Cara Murez
addressed the topic less than a year ago (US
NEWS). Pregnancy isn’t easy on the body of these youngsters. If you are
interested, see how difficult it is for pregnant girls in the age 10 to 13
range. And for some, there are lifelong consequences to deal with.
The
article about Texas appears to focus on adults. I hope parents of young girls will
also think about prevention.
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