jaron Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 2 Alabama lawyers say 12-year-old rape victim shouldn't have right to have abortion wo Alabama lawyers opposing a court decision to allow a 12-year-old rape victim to have an abortion spoke out Wednesday, denouncing the ruling in a press conference they held in Montgomery. According to AL.com, Win Johnson, conservative legal director for the Administrative Office of Courts under former Chief Justice Roy Moore, and Lorie Mullins, Executive Director of COPE Pregnancy Center, are arguing that granting the 12-year-old victim the right to have an abortion violates state law and she was not mature enough to make a decision of 'life and death'. Outrightly attacking the appeals court's decision and the 12-year-old girl, the pair said the decision should not be left up to the child as the law doesn't grant her to "make her own decision about whether or not she wants to drink" or "drive a car." On the other hand, many have called the lawyers' comments "harmful" and "disturbing", stating that the 12-year-old's choice to not become a mother while still, herself, a child is her right and the circumstances justified a waiver. On July 19, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals upheld a juvenile court's ruling that granted the unidentified child to have an abortion without parental consent. A 15-page opinion written by Judge Scott Donaldson also stated that a relative of the 12-year-old girl had been charged with statutory rape after it was found that he had raped her repeatedly and got her pregnant. The appeals court also noted that the girl had been subjected to physical abuse and neglect by her mother and that the girl and her four siblings had been removed from her custody five times. The child and her siblings have now been placed in the custody of the Department of Human Resources. Alabama law does allow for a waiver from a state law requiring that minors get parental consent before an abortion if the juvenile court finds that "the minor is mature and well-informed enough to make the decision on her own" or that "the abortion would be in the best interest of the minor." https://www.dailysabah.com/americas/2017/07/24/2-alabama-lawyers-say-12-year-old-rape-victim-shouldnt-have-right-to-have-abortion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzy Jan Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 How dare anyone try to stop a raped child having an abortion. Hasn't this poor girl been through enough without being forced to give birth and be a mother against her wishes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacHarris Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 The entire southeast region of the US is trash. TRASH I tell you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip The Switch Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 She should. Ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal1974 Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 So she can't make a decision to have n abortion at 12, but same could be argued she can't make a decision to have a child. A 12 year old has been raped which is horrific enough, but then for people to battle in the courts that she cannot have abortion is abhorrent. She will be physically and psychologically damaged enough by being raped without having to endure a pregnancy and childbirth of a child she has never consented to have. How dare any man (or woman) try to stop her having a termination. Always conservative christian men trying to tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies, even if it damages them physically and psychologically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightcutter Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaudet Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Perhaps if certain bigots were raped and found themselves in the same pregnant-through-violence situation, they might think twice before farting with their demented retrograde mouths. Unfortunately this whole keeping-the-baby culture when someone gets raped and becomes pregnant as a result of such despicable horrendous act, is deeply instilled in our fucked up society. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Doubt lawyers who are arguing against her abortion give a s**t about the fetus. Just a way to exert power and control girls and women's reproductive choices and sexuality. Ugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acko Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 How come there is not more outrage over this!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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