A 13-year-old who was raped by her grandfather traveled hours across Texas to get an abortion.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

She wouldn't have been able to under the state's new 6-week ban.

When Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed an unusually restrictive abortion ban into law last week, Dr. Bhavik Kumar was pained to think about the people it would hurt the most - patients like those he's served as an abortion provider at the Planned Parenthood Center for Choice in Houston.

The law, which is expected to be challenged and is not yet in effect, forbids abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and makes no exceptions for rape or incest.

"While politicians pass these laws in faraway buildings, we actually see these people, we take care of them," Kumar told Insider. "There are people depending on us. They have names. They have families. And their ability to access care will make the world of difference to them."

The story of a 13-year-old girl remains salient. She'd been raped by her grandfather and told her mom when she stopped getting her periods. A doctor confirmed she was pregnant, but the girl couldn't get an abortion close to home in Texas, where abortion access is already limited, so she was driven hours to Kumar's clinic.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/13-old-raped-her-grandfather-095636888.html

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. I want men accountable

For where they ejaculate,I want all males forced to get a
mandatory vasectomy. Rapists wouldn't impregnate innocent victims.Then when the males are mature enough and can support a kid financially,emotionally and be responsible for it,then they can get it reversed.

Men need to be accountable too.

[FakeNoose]

3. How about mandatory castration

That will take care of it.

[multigraincracker]

8. Castration doesn't work.

Testosterone shots can replace sex drive. Dick removal is very effective.

[Mr. Evil]

11. A 'Lopodicktomy?'

[cynical_idealist]

24. can sperm still be generated when no testes are present?

[Progressive Jones]

25. Uh, no. nt

[Srkdqltr]

2. Is grandpa in jail?

[Aristus]

4. Are you kidding?

Out in East Bumfuck, they'd probably give him a parade...

[Progressive Jones]

26. More importantly, is he dead yet? nt

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Solly Mack]

6. Yeah. Conservatives don't care.

They will tell you that rape that results in pregnancy is god's will. Or accuse the 13 year old of seducing her grandfather.

The blame the victim if she gets raped - then praise god if the rape victim gets pregnant.

[multigraincracker]

9. Unless it's their daughter.

Then she will study abroad for a while.

[Solly Mack]

10. True that.

[Mr.Bill]

7. Years ago I had a sister-in-law whose father

had molested just about every single female child in the family. I asked her if they were going to do anything about it. She said they were all praying for him.

[lpbk2713]

12. Someone should give him a 2x4 up side the head.

That would really give them something to pray about.

[roamer65]

16. If I were a brother and found out, there would be no praying.

Dad and I would have a severe “come to Jesus” moment.

[smirkymonkey]

19. Ugh!

Just can't deal.

[plimsoll]

23. Praying for him to do what exactly.

I mean they were all out praying for Obama to die. So praying doesn't really imply good intent does it.

On the other hand, could she have said "preying on him."

[Joinfortmill]

13. Poor child. What a horror.

[Politicub]

14. Dr. Kumar is a hero.

Image forcing a 13 year old rape victim to give birth. It’s unconscionable.

[GB_RN]

15. Welcome To The Buy-Bull Belt

It’s what those so-called Christians do…

[FakeNoose]

18. Don't they believe that Mary Mother of Jesus was 13

... when she gave birth?

[Warpy]

17. Women aren't human beings to this antiabortion scum

and that is the problem. Women are breeding stock, nothing more, things to be used and abused with no consequences.

"Pro life" will never apply to women's lives.

[smirkymonkey]

20. It's sickening.

I would so love to see these men get their comeuppance one of these days, very soon, for playing politics with the lives of girls and women. I have some violent fantasies, but I won't relate them here or I would get banned for life.

[keithbvadu2]

21. Fetuses get law after law after law imposed to reduce abortion. Dead school children from mass shoot

Fetuses get law after law after law imposed to reduce abortion.
Dead school children from mass shootings get thoughts and prayers because conservatives do not want to reduce killings if it reduces gun sales.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Joe The Plumber: Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights" To Have Guns

Joe The Plumber: ˜Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights" To Have Guns

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html


Ironic how he chose that verb back in 2014