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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 01:48 PM Mar 2019

Rape Victim Who Gave Birth Now Faces Prison Time

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

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Rape Victim Who Gave Birth Now Faces Prison Time (Original Post) packman Mar 2019 OP
FUCK the damned woman-hating religiousreichwingnutjobs . may they rot in their hell. niyad Mar 2019 #1
+1000 smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #3
The religious right ruin everything. Initech Mar 2019 #2

Initech

(100,107 posts)
2. The religious right ruin everything.
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 03:04 PM
Mar 2019

The rapist is the one who should be in jail, not the rape victim. Fuck the religious right.

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