{"id":254041,"date":"2021-09-29T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=254041"},"modified":"2021-09-28T00:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T05:26:53","slug":"abortion-answer-pregnant-pre-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-answer-pregnant-pre-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion is not the answer for pregnant teens and pre-teens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Texas Heartbeat Act<\/a> restricts abortion to before a preborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, usually at about six weeks, though the heart has already been beating from 16 to 22 days after fertilization. There is no exception to the pro-life law for preborn babies conceived in rape, or for young girls who have become pregnant possibly through statutory rape, and this has stirred up a great deal of controversy. Even some individuals who consider themselves to be pro-life believe that killing a preborn human being somehow becomes acceptable if<\/em>\u00a0that child is conceived as a result of a sexual assault.<\/p>\n

Abortion advocates tend to fall back on the most heartbreaking of stories in order to justify legalized on-demand abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. This remained true following the enactment of the Texas Heartbeat Act on September 1. A pro-abortion meme discussing what 11-year-olds cannot<\/em> do by law quickly made its way around social media \u2014\u00a0but it’s missing the big picture.<\/p>\n

The meme states that an 11-year-old cannot “buy a PG-13 movie ticket, buy a lottery ticket, buy cold medicine, buy a T-rated video game, drive a vehicle, vote.” The meme adds “A list of things an 11 yr old is now required to do: carry out a full term pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

But this is a misrepresentation of the situation.<\/p>\n

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