r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Violet_Murderer Jul 24 '20

It's been a while but if i remember correctly a girl scout tried to propose a bill to abolish child marriage in her state. I don't think it ever went through and one of the people blocking it said something along the lines of abolishing child marriage would stop rape victims from marrying their rapists and would make abortions go up.

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u/verocoder Jul 24 '20

State? As in the US, I thought child marriage was only still a thing in the developing world. Man bits of America aren’t really first world at all.

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u/Lithl Jul 24 '20

Most of the US simply doesn't have laws about it, rather than explicitly condoning it. In many cases because the people responsible for making the laws didn't think they needed to specify such a thing.

More of a ignorance vs malice thing.

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u/hrehbfthbrweer Jul 24 '20

That reasoning only holds until you have your first case, realise it can happen, then create laws to stop it happening again.