Rape is a life altering experience. Perhaps all the more so when you are 11, find yourself pregnant and are subjected to laws which seek to further impact your body without your consent.
So it was for a Romanian girl raped by her uncle and denied an abortion under Romania’s strict reproductive laws. The same sorts of laws the anti-choice crowd here would like to impose on Canadian women. Anti-choice groups in Romania have sought to impede the girls access to an abortion even though the church has stated that this was an unusual case and the decision was best left to the family. In the words of her mother. “”Panel after panel, meeting after meeting. In the meantime, my poor girl gets more and more terrified.”
Fortunately for the girl involved a “Romanian woman in Britain who has come to her rescue.” She will be flying to Britain shortly to have the pregnancy terminated. Now perhaps the family can get on with the process of healing.
That woman deserves a medal.
The decision made was the correct one. Whoever thinks that she should carry the fetus to term to hand it over to be adopted should mind their own business. They should find the uncle and put him in jail for LIFE. No child or teen should be forced to go to term with a pregnancy that they don’t want, EVER. ESpecially a rape victim!
Only a male (i.e. the church) would demand that a child rape victim go to term with a pregnancy. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it a million more times, if men had babies, abortion would be a god given right.
@ Beijing
I agree!
@Jan
Absolutely. I don’t understand what good anyone thinks would come of this pregnancy continuing and how heartless to want to put a child through that.
@Sonya
HA! It would be enshrined. They would have anthems and t-shirts and beer named after it! 🙂