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

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Is IS horrifying. Just the other day there was a story all over the news about a 13-year-old girl in Yemen who died after having sex with her (much) older husband shortly after they were married: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100410/...en_child_bride

You should correctly identify it. She bled to death after being tied up and raped by her husband. It isn't that she was a too young wife having sex with a much older man.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

You should correctly identify it. She bled to death after being tied up and raped by her husband. It isn't that she was a too young wife having sex with a much older man.

She died of internal bleeding, and she's not the only girl that has happened to. My point was that girls that young - even if they've technically reached puberty - have bodies that are still maturing and not necessarily fully capable of handling sex, let alone a pregnancy and birth.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

She died of internal bleeding, and she's not the only girl that has happened to. My point was that girls that young - even if they've technically reached puberty - have bodies that are still maturing and not necessarily fully capable of handling sex, let alone a pregnancy and birth.

More importantly, she was tied up and raped and that goes waaaaaay beyond body maturity.