It’s no surprise that the same people who want to ban abortion think that children should be allowed to be married at age 12, that a woman should be forced to carry and bear her rapists’ baby, and that sex ed and topics like consent and assault should not be taught in schools.

Adding this from Jess Piper @piper4missouri

“They want... to keep us poor, pregnant, and desperate...there is a concerted effort on the part of the GOP to force ignorance into our communities by deleting sex ed, history... They will keep us undereducated so we can work for less...They will force pregnancy on young girls to keep them hopeless of ever getting out of poverty. They will keep an education a dream with the only option being a lifetime of debt…”

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@piper4missouri: I was married at 18, pregnant at 19, and a mom by 20. I am from rural Arkansas and I am not an anomaly. I was actually proud to say I wasn't a teenage mom....

@fsinn These examples from the deep south remind me of one example from Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border. The mom was married at 13 & had her eldest son at 14.

The difference is that it shocks most Pakistanis & that the mom would have been in the silent generation.

Some Americans have the exact same thinking as early 20th c Pathans.

@fsinn They're just saying it a little louder now.

@fsinn

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Sad, sick & twisted...
hate+fear+tribalism+guns, per
#GQP #NRA #Fox #TrumpVirus

@fsinn they also think children should work in meat packing plants and other dangerous jobs.
@fsinn As long as you think it's about morality and hypocrisy you're just falling for their empty rhetoric. These lunatics want to stock up the population before a proper confrontation with China.
@brrbrr I don’t and I’m not. My post isn’t about hypocrisy, it’s about intent, and that intent is much more immediate than anything to do with China. It’s small men using laws to control women and lock in a patriarchal, oppressive, exploitive system.
@fsinn why do you think they think this? Do you think there might be a reason other than the pseudo-religious idiocy they spout to placate their political power base? What *exactly* do you think *their* intent (as a group) is? Sadism against women? About half the people voting republican are women, how do you explain that? Brainwashing?
@fsinn they are literally trying to force the female population of the US to push out babies from 12 till death all whilst being held at home a hostage against their will to be an obedient victim.
@Vonskinnback this exactly. A young woman without an education and with children has limited options and few choices. Add the proliferation of guns, and even attempting to leave an abusive situation is even that much more dangerous for her.
@fsinn I just don't understand the end game, it is counterintuitive to a successful economy, countries that focus on education & development for all equally have societies that are happier & have the most balanced lifestyles with thriving economies, a healthier population & less poverty. Why don't people want that, pumping out babies is no longer the human race's primary responsibility, the freedom to choose your own path is.
@fsinn And secret cabal eats babies! 🆘🦄🆘