Pregnant Girls & New Laws

 

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.

 

 "Highways are the next antiabortion target. 

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.”

 "A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion."

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.

 School shootings aren't the only threats to young lives.

The article about Texas appears to focus on adults. I hope parents of young girls will also think about prevention.

 

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