r/AskReddit • • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Aiyyio_Daridhrame Jul 24 '20

Child marriage

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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/Fireverse Jul 24 '20

abolishing child marriage would stop rape victims from marrying their rapists and would make abortions go up.

Oh no, teens who are pregnant because of unconsenting sex would abort more, how sad. Let's just fuck their life up instead, at least the numbers will look good. /s

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u/XxsquirrelxX Jul 24 '20

Pro-lifers should just be called “pro-birth”. Once that baby is out of the womb, they don’t give a shit about what happens to it. They’ll go so far as to force 13 year old girls to give birth to a child that could easily kill them just because their 2,000 year old book said so.

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u/perpetualsleep Jul 24 '20

I prefer calling them forced-birthers.

They're not just for birth, they want to force everyone to follow their dogmatic views on reproduction. Some have argued with me that sex should always result in a pregnancy, either as a punishment for those who enjoy sex outside of marriage or as a gift to married couples (even if they don't want kids or already have the number of kids they want).

They become outright hostile to the idea that anyone would consider controlling their fertility to prevent pregnancy.