{"id":277439,"date":"2022-10-08T15:35:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=277439"},"modified":"2022-10-07T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:08:12","slug":"ohio-department-health-minors-abortions-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-department-health-minors-abortions-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Department of Health data reveals hundreds of minors obtained abortions in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Data released from the Ohio Department of Health<\/a> (ODH) has shed light on abortion within the state in 2021, including the number of children (minors) who have undergone abortions. According to the data, over 500 minors were reported to have had abortions that year, and roughly 10% of those were under the age of 15.<\/p>\n

Altogether, 538 abortions were committed on children under the age of 17; the\u00a0age of consent<\/a> in Ohio is 16. This means some of these pregnancies were, legally speaking, the product of statutory rape.\u00a0While the most recent ODH report\u00a0does not say<\/a> how many abortions were committed because of rape or incest,\u00a0at least 57 were committed on girls younger than 15, which is below the legal age of consent. Every one of those abortions should have been reported to police and investigated.<\/p>\n

However, it may never be known if (or how many of) those girls were simply handed back to their abusers to continue to be victimized.<\/p>\n

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Ohio requires\u00a0parental consent<\/a> for an abortion \u2014\u00a0but as was the case in the recent controversial situation with a raped 10-year-old who had an abortion, the parent can be complicit in the abuse, using abortion to cover up a crime. The abortionist in that case, Caitlin Bernard, was previously\u00a0accused of<\/a> failing to report child sex abuse. In the recent case of the 10-year-old, however, she did make a report to authorities.<\/p>\n

It is not rare for the abortion industry to cover up the rape of children. Whether it is statutory rape or sexual abuse of adults, the abortion industry is known to have aided\u00a0real-life predators<\/a>, allowing them to use abortion as a tool to cover up abusers’ crimes, without ever notifying police.<\/p>\n