I’m steaming after reading the story of the pregnant 12-year-old who had no idea how she got that way: “they had been “playing house” when the pregnancy occurred.”
I’m usually have great sympathy with the writers of the very powerful Abortion Clinic Days blog on which this account is written, but not in this case. They say this is a “very religious family” – well no surprise there. But also that “there is no evidence of parental neglect”.
Well, NO – to fail to give a child the information about the facts of life, about the facts of how her body works and what might be done to it – is the most profound neglect. (And presumably this child was menstruating – I dread to think what she might have been told about that.)
This is not so very different from the father who sent his 11 and 12 year old children to walk 10 miles home in the snow. The girl, 11, died and her brother very nearly did – and if this pregnant 12-year-old were to die (and the pregnancy is described as high risk), then the family would be equally culpable.
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