Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi
Lauren Aratani
Mon, August 14, 2023 at 1:56 PM MDT·4 min read
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Photograph: Rogelio V Solis/AP


A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi gave birth to a boy after she was raped as well as impregnated by a stranger – and then was unable to get an abortion, according to a Time magazine report published on Monday.

The mother of the girl, who uses the pseudonym Ashley in the report, was looking to get an abortion for her daughter but was told the closest abortion provider was in Chicago – a drive of more than nine hours from their home in Clarksdale, Mississippi.


Ashley’s mother, referred to as Regina in the report, told Time that the cost of getting an abortion in Chicago was too expensive when considering the price of travel, taking time off work and getting the abortion for her daughter.


“I don’t have the funds for all this,” Regina told Time.

The report is the latest in a series of horrific personal accounts that have surfaced after the US supreme court overturned the nationwide abortion access rights which had been established by the Roe v Wade precedent. Since the decision, titled Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 14 state laws banning abortion have gone into effect, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.

The women’s health clinic that was at the center of the case was the last abortion provider in Mississippi until it closed last summer after the Dobbs decision.

Last summer, just a week after the ruling, a local newspaper in Ohio reported that a 10-year-old who was raped had to travel to Indiana for an abortion because of restrictions in her state. A man was found guilty last month of raping and impregnating the girl in that case, and he received a sentence of life imprisonment.

Other stories detail how women nearly died because doctors had to wait until their life was at risk to perform an abortion – or that many women now have to travel long distances to get any kind of reproductive healthcare. An estimated 25 million women ages 15 to 33 live in states that have abortion restrictions.

With respect to Monday’s Time report, Ashley discovered she was pregnant after her mother took her to the hospital for uncontrollable vomiting. Regina noticed that Ashley was behaving differently, staying in her room when she used to enjoy going outside to record TikTok dances. Upon receiving bloodwork showing Ashley was pregnant, the hospital contacted the police.

“What have you been doing?” a nurse asked Ashley at that time, according to the report. The hospital ultimately directed Ashley to the Clarksdale Women’s Clinic, which provides OB-GYN services. The clinic did not respond to requests from the Guardian for comment.

“It was surreal for her,” Dr Erica Balthrop, Ashley’s physician, told Time. “She just had no clue.”

Before Dobbs, Balthrop could have directed Regina to a Memphis abortion clinic that was a 90-minute drive north, or to Jackson Women’s Health, which is a 2.5-hour drive south. But Mississippi – along with all the states surrounding it – has banned abortion.

Mississippi, along with many other states that also ban abortions, technically make exceptions for when the pregnancy is from rape or is life-threatening. But abortions granted under these exceptions are extremely rare and poorly tracked.

In January, the New York Times reported that Mississippi made two exceptions since the state’s abortion ban went into effect. The state requires that a rape be reported to law enforcement in order to qualify for a legal abortion.

Two out of three sexual assault cases in the US are not reported to the police, according to Rainn, or the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, an anti-sexual assault nonprofit. Even if an exception is made, a person must travel out of their state to get an abortion procedure if their state bans it.

The laws exacerbate longstanding health inequalities in Mississippi, where Black women are four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications compared with white women, according to the state’s health department. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 60% of women who seek abortions are people of color and about half live below the federal poverty line.

Regina said she filed a complaint with the Clarksdale police department after she learned Ashley was pregnant. She told Time that her daughter ultimately opened up about what happened: a man came into their front yard while she was making TikToks outside while her uncle and sibling were inside and assaulted her. Ashley said she did not know who the man was and that no one witnessed the attack.

The police department confirmed to Time that a report had been filed. But the agency declined to comment publicly on the case since it involved a minor.

After 39 weeks of pregnancy, Ashley gave birth to a boy, whom they nicknamed Peanut. Ashley told Time the birth was “painful”.

“This situation hurts the most because it was an innocent child doing what children do, playing outside, and it was my child,” Regina told Time. “It still hurts, and is going to always hurt.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/girl-13-gives-birth-she-195613889.html

 

Anything to support infanticide.

 

And looking back to 2019 and what the despicables were twirling about then, we see that they are still working the same agenda of American hating destruction. No change. Just new rhetoric.​

10 Craziest Things Democrats Have Said Since Taking Control of the House (thepoliticalinsider.com)

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10 Craziest Things Democrats Have Said Since Taking Control of the House
BY RUSTY WEISS
FEBRUARY 5, 2019 AT 10:41AM

It’s been one full month since Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives and they’ve wasted no time in dialing up the crazy.

We’ve discussed in this forum what exactly was at stake should Republicans have ceded control of even just one chamber of Congress during the midterms.

From obstructing construction of the border wall to eliminating middle-class tax cuts, and of course, on to impeachment, it was fairly easy to predict where the resistance party would go politically.

What could not be foreseen, on the other hand, was just how far off the deep end the Democrat Party had fallen. In January alone, the liberals have ratcheted up the insanity to levels which we could never, as Americans, imagine.

With that, let’s take a look back at the ten most radical statements made by Democrats last month.

Abortion After Birth

It would be borderline criminal to not address the most extreme statement right off the bat – Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam explaining new legislation that would allow abortions up to birth, then describing that they could actually be considered after birth.

SHOCKING… Northam, Virginia, 3rd trimester abortion

If a mother is in labor… The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. Then discussion would ensue between physician & mother

“The infant would be kept comfortable,” Northam said during a radio interview. “The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

The only silver lining about such a ghoulish view of terminating a baby’s life is that it is so far beyond extreme that the American people wholeheartedly reject the idea. It has revealed the Democrat Party as the party of extremists willing to support infanticide. And it might just be enough to carry Republicans in the 2020 election.

Cuomo Celebrates Abortion Up to Birth
Prior to the Virginia Governor stepping on a rake with his pro-infanticide take, New York Democrat governor Andrew Cuomo celebrated his own state’s new abortion legislation which allows termination of the baby up until the moment of birth.

He described the law as “a giant step forward in the hard-fought battle to ensure a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her own personal health” and a “historic victory for New Yorkers.”

Cuomo went so far as to celebrate the future deaths by lighting up monuments in New York in the color pink.

Impeach the MFer

Freshman Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib told a group of left-wing supporters she would help Democrats impeach President Trump, but opted for slightly more colorful language.

“When your son looks at you and says: ‘Momma, look, you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t,'” Tlaib said. “Because we’re going to go in there, and we’re going to impeach the motherf***er.”

Wipe Out Private Health Insurance

Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris expressed a desire to eliminate the private health-insurance industry and allow for a government takeover

“Let’s eliminate all of that … Let’s move on,” she said when asked about for-profit health-care insurers.

Calling President Trump the ‘Grand Wizard’
The chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, referred to the President of the United States as “the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

“These are challenging times in the United States of America — we have a hater in the White House, a birther in chief, the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” Jeffries said.

Capitalism Is Immoral
Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes that any “system that allows billionaires to exist” or promotes success is immoral.

Walls Are Immoral
In addressing security at the southern border, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “A wall is an immorality. It’s not who we are as a nation.”

After Calling Israel ‘Evil,’ Dem Rep Can’t Understand Why Jewish Americans Would Take Offense
Rep. Ilhan Omar defended past social-media ramblings in which she said Israel has “hypnotized the world” and she “hopes people will see their evil doings.”

In fact, she seems confused as to why anyone would be upset by them.

“I don’t know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans,” Omar said during an interview with CNN.

Anti-Semitic Members of Congress Are Just Thoughtful
House Democrats have vociferously defended anti-Semitism in their own party, particularly Reps. Tlaib (MI) and Omar (MN), with one even suggesting their views were simply ‘thoughtful.’

“I’ve found those two new freshmen members to be thoughtful colleagues on a wide variety of issues,” Hakeem Jeffries said.

Illegal Immigrants More American Than Trump
Ocasio-Cortez responded to President Trump’s speech on border security, claiming illegal immigrants are more American than he and his supporters are.

“The women and children on the border seeking refuge and opportunity in the U.S. with nothing but the shirt on their backs are acting more American than any person who seeks to keep them out ever will be,” she asserted.

 

Doesn't happen. You're delusional!

 

Said by a Dumbocrat ding-dong.

 

Gotta love the desperation of those who try to distract, deflect, and derail the discussion about treasonous conservative America Hating Republicans trying to outlaw abortion and inflict Sharia Law For Christians enforced by the American Taliban on the nation.

Some of them used to claim it was a woman's right. Then it was state's rights. But now its infanticide. Which is no one can believe a non fucking word they say.

 

Only despicables support abortion at any time, for any or no reason, at taxpayer expense.
Infanticide but the word makes them uncomfortable so they lie and twist and divert.

 

Another trick of false propagandists is to misuse words to try and create a false impression and the illusion of truth.

in·fan·ti·cide

noun
noun: infanticide; plural noun: infanticides

1. 1.
   the crime of killing a child within a year of its birth (in some legal jurisdictions, specifically by the mother).
   "cases of infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance"
   • the practice in some societies of killing unwanted children soon after birth.
     "female infanticide was practiced to reduce the population in times of famine"
2. 2.
   a person who kills an infant, especially their own child.
   

 

Now, that's where you're wrong, anon. I heard of a mother (in California, of course) who decided to abort her son, forty years after birth!!! Cali has no term limits. Poor slob.

 

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/political-insider/

And you guys complain about Raw Story...

 

The desperation is pretty obvious because the false propaganda is more than four years old. But also pushes already debunked lies about "infanticide."


Did Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Say He Would 'Execute a Baby After Birth'?
U.S. President Donald Trump used his 2019 State of the Union address to criticize the Democratic governor of Virginia.



Rating:


Mostly False


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What's False
Northam did not "state he would execute a baby after birth."



https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-northam-abortion-execute/


Fact check: Virginia governor’s 2019 comments about abortion bill are missing context

VERDICT
Partly false. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was not supporting “infanticide.” According to a spokeswoman, he was referring to a “extremely rare case” of a nonviable pregnancy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-...ortion-bill-are-missing-context-idUSKBN27D2HL

 

We see yet again how the left changes what was said so they can declare it false.

As dishonest as editing out key information in an article to completely change its meaning. Like babies burned up in a bon fire so the "mother" can wear her favorite jeans.

Disgusting and shameful doesn't begin to cover it.

 

What was changed? You claim that the left supports infanticide, and I ask you to prove it, and you don't...

No one changed your words!

And no one defended her, right?

Yeah, it is shameful you keep lying.

 

Show where anyone claimed
"Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Say He Would 'Execute a Baby After Birth'?"



Now, mouth, answer the question or slink away.

 

"Late-term abortions make up about 1 percent of all abortions and may be necessary to protect the health of the mother or in situations in which the fetus faces little to no chance of survival outside the womb."

 

Irrelevant to the discussion.
Go post memes in the despicable thread.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-...ortion-bill-are-missing-context-idUSKBN27D2HL

Guess you don't want to deal with ALL of his words, just those few you can twist to your agenda.

My prediction. You'll not read the link.

 

Exactly which part is the half truth? We know that the governor of Virginia did not say what shooter, the space alien, claims!

Which is it, Parrot!