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Is this what the religious right in our country wants us to become?
young woman in El Salvador was sexually abused by her stepfather since the age of 12, impregnated by him at age 18, and now has a 2-year-old daughter by him. But adding to the horror of her experience, Imelda Cortez, now 20, is the one facing up to 20 years in prison after being accused of attempted murder due to her country's strict abortion laws, even though she says she didn't try to have an abortion,
Read article for the full horror of this:
http://www.newser.com/story/267129/raped-as-a-teen-she-faces-20-years-in-jail-after-giving-birth.html
And another story about a 11 yr. old raped in Argentina , forced to have the baby, and now facing possible jail time for seeking out an abortion:
https://mediacomtoday.com/news/read/category/news/article/newser-girl_11_forced_to_deliver_rapists_baby-rnewsersyn
niyad
(130,439 posts)Initech
(107,960 posts)The rapist is the one who should be in jail, not the rape victim. Fuck the religious right.
