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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly there is a very dark strain of misogyny that runs through the GOP. Child rape and sexual molestation and incest are not new. It’s something that even the self-hating women in the movement are okay with, for some of them because it happened to them and they had to lock up that part of their brain and soul to get through.

But for those who are experiencing a crack of humanity in their armor of misogyny, remember what a ten year old is.

Anonymous wrote:It’s impossible to take in the full gravity of this story without thinking carefully about how young a 10-year-old is.

Ten-year-olds are of an age when Dr. Benjamin Spock said children are finally prepared “to cross a heavily traveled street without adult supervision.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s childhood development guidelines for children this age emphasize that they are still learning to build deep friendships and understand concepts such as responsibility.

They are usually in fourth or fifth grade, depending on when their birthdays fall, and they are being assessed on concepts such as reading comprehension and fractions. They’re at the right age for Pixar movies, but not for Marvel action extravaganzas; they can handle Amelia Bedelia and Willy Wonka and maybe the later Harry Potter books.

Gift guides for 10-year-olds recommend STEM learning toys and plush comfort animals. Ames’s research suggested that 10-year-olds are still learning to tell jokes; that they’re prone to losing or frittering away money; that they think dating is something for the future.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/13/ohio-10-year-old-rape-abortion-childhood/

If you are one of the Democrats who reliably votes Democratic but has always felt that forced birthers really cared about life, you can stop doing that. If you’re a forced birther who voted your forced birther politics with your misogyny a background issue and believed that life was so important, what about the life of the actually living? It’s time to sit with your internalized misogyny. This is an especially heinous example, but think of the misery your forcing your beliefs on women will cause.

My dd is 16, but thinking about her at that age, just, damn. This made me tear up. She literally just texted me asking if I’d order a pillow pet that’s on sale. At 10, she had a bed full of stuffed animals, still pretended to believe in Santa, totally rocked fractions but had trouble remembering where to put the decimal when multiplying, and would still reach for my hand when we crossed the street if her friends weren’t around. She was engrossed in the Warriors cats book series (I remember her crying when one of the cats died), and had stopped reading The Hunger Games series because she didn’t like the violence. There’s no reality, no circumstance, no way of thinking that makes it ok to require her to try to carry a pregnancy to term, deliver a baby, and deal with postpartum care, on top of the trauma of rape. Thinking about her losing her privacy in the process and having to further protect her from conservative a-holes who don’t believe her or think we forced her to commit murder instead of helping her heal, it’s beyond infuriating. It’s like salt in the wound knowing that this isn’t exactly uncommon, and that the frequency goes up among children with special needs.

I have a 10 year old daughter. She loves to read Babysitter Club books and won’t go near something like the Hunger Games because the premise scares her. Her favorite stuffed animal varies, but right now it’s a stuffed dog she named Coco. She recently put away her Barbies but still likes playing with her toy vet set. She’s excited to be a safety patrol at her elementary school next year.

The idea of her being raped is too awful to fathom on its own, but the idea of her little 70-pound body then having to carry a pregnancy to term and go through labor and delivery is horrifying. How can people be okay subjecting young children to that level of trauma?

They are sick. They will not give up control over women’s bodies no matter the cost.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just want to reiterate:
There was a 10 year old child in need of safe abortion within days of the ban going into effect.
That’s how common this is.
That’s how needed abortion is.

It’s also why we can’t wait decades to undo this decision. Dems need to end the filibuster, expand the court, and vote to protect abortion access.

Republicans don’t want us to discuss this. So they start trolling. This is what needs to happen, today.

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Anonymous wrote:Just want to reiterate:
There was a 10 year old child in need of safe abortion within days of the ban going into effect.
That’s how common this is.
That’s how needed abortion is.

It’s also why we can’t wait decades to undo this decision. Dems need to end the filibuster, expand the court, and vote to protect abortion access.

Anonymous wrote:Republicans are blocking a bill that would bar states from restricting a woman's right to travel to get an abortion.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1547611935822163976

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly there is a very dark strain of misogyny that runs through the GOP. Child rape and sexual molestation and incest are not new. It’s something that even the self-hating women in the movement are okay with, for some of them because it happened to them and they had to lock up that part of their brain and soul to get through.

But for those who are experiencing a crack of humanity in their armor of misogyny, remember what a ten year old is.

Anonymous wrote:It’s impossible to take in the full gravity of this story without thinking carefully about how young a 10-year-old is.

Ten-year-olds are of an age when Dr. Benjamin Spock said children are finally prepared “to cross a heavily traveled street without adult supervision.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s childhood development guidelines for children this age emphasize that they are still learning to build deep friendships and understand concepts such as responsibility.

They are usually in fourth or fifth grade, depending on when their birthdays fall, and they are being assessed on concepts such as reading comprehension and fractions. They’re at the right age for Pixar movies, but not for Marvel action extravaganzas; they can handle Amelia Bedelia and Willy Wonka and maybe the later Harry Potter books.

Gift guides for 10-year-olds recommend STEM learning toys and plush comfort animals. Ames’s research suggested that 10-year-olds are still learning to tell jokes; that they’re prone to losing or frittering away money; that they think dating is something for the future.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/13/ohio-10-year-old-rape-abortion-childhood/

If you are one of the Democrats who reliably votes Democratic but has always felt that forced birthers really cared about life, you can stop doing that. If you’re a forced birther who voted your forced birther politics with your misogyny a background issue and believed that life was so important, what about the life of the actually living? It’s time to sit with your internalized misogyny. This is an especially heinous example, but think of the misery your forcing your beliefs on women will cause.

My dd is 16, but thinking about her at that age, just, damn. This made me tear up. She literally just texted me asking if I’d order a pillow pet that’s on sale. At 10, she had a bed full of stuffed animals, still pretended to believe in Santa, totally rocked fractions but had trouble remembering where to put the decimal when multiplying, and would still reach for my hand when we crossed the street if her friends weren’t around. She was engrossed in the Warriors cats book series (I remember her crying when one of the cats died), and had stopped reading The Hunger Games series because she didn’t like the violence. There’s no reality, no circumstance, no way of thinking that makes it ok to require her to try to carry a pregnancy to term, deliver a baby, and deal with postpartum care, on top of the trauma of rape. Thinking about her losing her privacy in the process and having to further protect her from conservative a-holes who don’t believe her or think we forced her to commit murder instead of helping her heal, it’s beyond infuriating. It’s like salt in the wound knowing that this isn’t exactly uncommon, and that the frequency goes up among children with special needs.

I have a 10 year old daughter. She loves to read Babysitter Club books and won’t go near something like the Hunger Games because the premise scares her. Her favorite stuffed animal varies, but right now it’s a stuffed dog she named Coco. She recently put away her Barbies but still likes playing with her toy vet set. She’s excited to be a safety patrol at her elementary school next year.

The idea of her being raped is too awful to fathom on its own, but the idea of her little 70-pound body then having to carry a pregnancy to term and go through labor and delivery is horrifying. How can people be okay subjecting young children to that level of trauma?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Republicans are blocking a bill that would bar states from restricting a woman's right to travel to get an abortion.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1547611935822163976

It’s 1850 all over again.

(For those who do not know what I’m referencing specifically, I am referring to the Fugitive Slave Act that forced even free states to return enslaved people who had escaped to slave states).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly there is a very dark strain of misogyny that runs through the GOP. Child rape and sexual molestation and incest are not new. It’s something that even the self-hating women in the movement are okay with, for some of them because it happened to them and they had to lock up that part of their brain and soul to get through.

But for those who are experiencing a crack of humanity in their armor of misogyny, remember what a ten year old is.

Anonymous wrote:It’s impossible to take in the full gravity of this story without thinking carefully about how young a 10-year-old is.

Ten-year-olds are of an age when Dr. Benjamin Spock said children are finally prepared “to cross a heavily traveled street without adult supervision.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s childhood development guidelines for children this age emphasize that they are still learning to build deep friendships and understand concepts such as responsibility.

They are usually in fourth or fifth grade, depending on when their birthdays fall, and they are being assessed on concepts such as reading comprehension and fractions. They’re at the right age for Pixar movies, but not for Marvel action extravaganzas; they can handle Amelia Bedelia and Willy Wonka and maybe the later Harry Potter books.

Gift guides for 10-year-olds recommend STEM learning toys and plush comfort animals. Ames’s research suggested that 10-year-olds are still learning to tell jokes; that they’re prone to losing or frittering away money; that they think dating is something for the future.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/13/ohio-10-year-old-rape-abortion-childhood/

If you are one of the Democrats who reliably votes Democratic but has always felt that forced birthers really cared about life, you can stop doing that. If you’re a forced birther who voted your forced birther politics with your misogyny a background issue and believed that life was so important, what about the life of the actually living? It’s time to sit with your internalized misogyny. This is an especially heinous example, but think of the misery your forcing your beliefs on women will cause.

My dd is 16, but thinking about her at that age, just, damn. This made me tear up. She literally just texted me asking if I’d order a pillow pet that’s on sale. At 10, she had a bed full of stuffed animals, still pretended to believe in Santa, totally rocked fractions but had trouble remembering where to put the decimal when multiplying, and would still reach for my hand when we crossed the street if her friends weren’t around. She was engrossed in the Warriors cats book series (I remember her crying when one of the cats died), and had stopped reading The Hunger Games series because she didn’t like the violence. There’s no reality, no circumstance, no way of thinking that makes it ok to require her to try to carry a pregnancy to term, deliver a baby, and deal with postpartum care, on top of the trauma of rape. Thinking about her losing her privacy in the process and having to further protect her from conservative a-holes who don’t believe her or think we forced her to commit murder instead of helping her heal, it’s beyond infuriating. It’s like salt in the wound knowing that this isn’t exactly uncommon, and that the frequency goes up among children with special needs.

Anonymous wrote:Republicans are blocking a bill that would bar states from restricting a woman's right to travel to get an abortion.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1547611935822163976

Anonymous wrote:Just want to reiterate:
There was a 10 year old child in need of safe abortion within days of the ban going into effect.
That’s how common this is.
That’s how needed abortion is.

Anonymous wrote:Watching the hearing The Threat to Individual Freedoms in a Post-Roe World just now. If you have a chance, watch Swallwell's questioning. The GOP's witness tries to claim that under the Ohio law, a 10-year-old terminating a pregnancy from rape isn't an "abortion" She flatly says that. Of course, we all know it is because abortion is a MEDICAL TERM that means ending a pregnancy, no matter the cause. Besides the gaslighting, why not just say the girl will get an amazing life lesson to be a mother or that her baby will add to the domestic supply of infants.

But no, she lies and gaslights instead. And this folks is how we no they know what they are doing is highly unpopular but are doing so anyway. F anyone who votes for these monsters. You think your daughter is safe but rape is VERY, Very, common.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I didn’t think that the forced birthers supported child rape prior to this. How wrong I was. My God.

Correct. Go look at the GOP corruption thread for more. I lost track over the hundred plus pages of how many rapists and child rapists and other assorted life destroying sex crimes various Republican elected officials are guilty of. It’s disgusting and it’s clearly a serious problem in the party.

Yeah, I’m a political moderate who has voted for Republicans in the past, and I used to think that the Democrats were being pretty hypocritical about the sex assaults by Republicans because there are plenty of sex assaulter amongst the Democrats too. But the aftermath of the Roe decision has shown to me that this issue of Republican child rapists is deeply part of the party. They really, as a group, support child rape. It’s horrifying to watch.

I’m probably not going to vote Republican again in my lifetime, barring serious restructuring of the party. I can’t stomach it. Between the enthusiastic cheerleading for child rape (my God!!), the insurrection, and the blind allegiance to the gun lobby, I can’t see how I could ever vote for them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are now doxxing the doctor who helped the ten year old. They are pure evil.

This is beyond my ability to understand.

Let me explain it: they want to make sure that no future doctor ever dares to publicly say this type of thing happens. They want to avoid any media scrutiny of the effect of their laws.