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Originally Posted by PaulC
Oh come on - does this really have to be broken down for you? The rapists are being protected from any potential child support obligation.
BTW, I stopped watching O'Reilly and his ilk years ago when I concluded that they're all happy old media whores who would toss their mamma in front of a bus if it meant a .1 increase in Nielsen ratings...don't believe that they always believe in what they say.
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I'll agree with that. The only reason I reference him is that he seems to represent a fairly large segment of the US population, based on his ratings and income, anyway, income that derives in part from people giving his "wisdom" the nod by buying his books.
I think the general argument is that a statutory rapists will bring an underage girl to a clinic for an abortion in the first trimester w/o her parents even having known she was pregnant. And thus escape detection and penalty and perhaps continue with his exploitation. One hopes that sufficient official inquiry would be put in place to ferrit out such characters, such as thoroughly interviewing the girl in question.
That argument has validity but Tiller usually did late term abortions, at which point an underage girl will be obviously pregnant.
I saw a piece on PBS about 11 and 12 year old child brides in Africa giving birth and suffering fistulas, a tearing of the vaginal tissue that often results in social ostracization as urine seeps uncontrollably. One girl also walked with a limp as a few muscles were damaged in the process as well.
O'Reilly's complaint about 10 year old girls receiving late term abortions reminds me of the cardinal who excommunicated the doctors who aborted twins from a 9 year old girl in Brazil, twins courtesy of her step father.
Oh yeah, God's will will be contravened unless such a girl gives birth and dies in the process.