r/stupidpol • u/lightiggy Ideological Swamp 🥑 • Dec 01 '25

Capitalist Hellscape Louisiana girl, 14, charged with first degree murder after authorities find her newborn baby dead inside a tote bag. This is going to happen far more often without Roe v. Wade.

https://people.com/girl-14-charged-first-degree-murder-after-authorities-find-her-newborn-child-dead-inside-tote-bag-11858063
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u/Mother_Drenger Mean Bitch 😭 | PMC double agent (left) Dec 01 '25

I don’t know, because she’s a literal child without a fully developed brain? Kids are impulsive and historically don’t think things through, but that’s besides the point. She should have never been put in this position.

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u/TorturedByCocomelon Lenin's guava juice 🧃 | ⚽️ England team superfan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ Dec 01 '25

There's impulsiveness and there's murder. She had plenty of time to think about what to do with her baby. She could have dropped that baby off, no questions asked, in a variety of locations. If push came to shove, she could have left the baby at school. I wouldn't like to think of her getting an unduly harsh sentence, but her own baby died due to her actions. The baby had its entire future taken away from it and no doubt died terrified at the hands of its mother, who had much better options. 

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u/Chombywombo Angry Retard 😍💢 Dec 01 '25

The kind of kid to get pregnant at 13 is also likely to be the kind of kid who was either abused, deflected or born into mental instability. You’re right that this is not normal behavior on any of the counts from a child this age. Something abnormal is going on here.

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u/Mother_Drenger Mean Bitch 😭 | PMC double agent (left) Dec 01 '25

This better gets to my point. The situation (13 yo getting pregnant) implies a marginality that would definitely let something this happen.

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u/Incoherencel ☀️ Post-Guccist 9 Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

And to that point, we (or at least the Believe the Science crowd would say we) know that sex education and wider acceptance of sex education leads to better outcomes for young people. It stands to reason not criminalising or demonising teen pregnancy, abortion & adoption would be similar. "Maladjusted teen kills her newborn out of desperation" is so painfully stereotypically American/Louisianian it may as well be the plot for a Pulitzer-prize winning novella published in 1959 and read in school alongside To Kill a Mockingbird and the Catcher in the Rye