10-year-old's pregnancy fuels Mexican abortion debate

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

@the last few pages---holy trainwreck on a stick!


That's really sad. There are so many horrifying circumstances that can happen before/during our lives that therapy can't heal. It is ALWAYS tragic and heartbreaking. Yet somehow, we do heal (to the best of our ability) and most learn to survive, some of us even find it in ourselves to thrive. We can spout these statements here, but I doubt any of you walk up to any one of these incredibly resilient survivors, look into his or her eyes and say "it would have been better if you hadn't been born."


HELL to the YEAH

I think we all agree that an abortion can't (legally) happen this late in the game, so this is all hypothetical. She could be traumatized from being "forced" (assuming she doesn't want to keep it) to carry this baby but she can be traumatized after being "forced" (assuming she wanted to keep it) to go through an abortion. She'll have emotional scars from both giving up the baby and from raising it before she's ready. Some say she could die in "childbirth." Okay well due to her small pelvis, she'd probably need a C-section and the risk of death in that is about equal to the risk of death during a second-trimester abortion. She and the baby are currently healthy, but both a second trimester abortion and a C-section can lead to infection/sepsis, internal organ damage, bleeding out, and a crap load of other things that can lead to infertility. Can you imagine either becoming infertile while birthing a product of your rape or becoming infertile after ending the life of the one child you could ever have?

I can't even say what I'd like to see happen because, let's face it, this poor girl is screwed on all sides--I agree with DP in that she needs to be in therapy until she's 100. But for nearly every argument on one side, the same applies to the other side. I'm praying she has/will have a lot of support because she's going to need it.

I will note that you're assuming the same quality of health care in whatever part of Mexico that she is in is the same as the quality of health care here. I suppose that applies to abortion too though.