{"id":278603,"date":"2022-10-28T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=278603"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:08:54","slug":"abortion-advocates-exploit-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-advocates-exploit-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion advocates exploit child sex abuse victims for their own gain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion advocates have long made a habit of exploiting women and girls in traumatic circumstances in order to promote legalized abortion for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Following the fall of Roe v. Wade<\/em> in June, those efforts have intensified. Sexually abused children are being exploited, with their horrific and heartbreaking stories used to promote the killing of preborn children. Recent examples include child sexual abuse victims living in Kentucky and Florida.<\/p>\n

Abortion and sexual abuse<\/h3>\n

The Louisville Courier Journal<\/a> reports two nine-year-old girls had undergone abortions in the last two years in Kentucky because they were survivors of first-degree rape. According to the outlet, 34 girls aged 15 and under had abortions in 2021 in Kentucky. In 2022, that number was 18. Age 16 is considered the age of consent in the state, and therefore, any pregnant girl aged 15 and younger is automatically a sexual assault victim because she is legally unable to consent to sex.<\/p>\n

Since August 1, Kentucky’s law<\/a> protecting preborn children from abortion beginning at fertilization has been in place with one exception for when the woman is at risk of death or serious permanent injury \u2014 which could apply to child sex abuse victims due to the risk of pregnancy and labor on their bodies. When a 10-year-old girl became pregnant from rape in Ohio earlier this year, Attorney General David Yost said<\/a> she would not have had to leave the state for an abortion; it would have been allowed based on the state’s medical exemption abortion exception.<\/p>\n

Recently, a middle school girl visited<\/a> a Planned Parenthood in Jacksonville, Florida, seeking to abort a baby who was conceived due to incest. However, Florida protects preborn children from abortion after 15 weeks and the girl was already further along. Planned Parenthood referred the girl out of state for the abortion. The abortion corporation also shared that another young middle school-aged girl had traveled from out of state to Florida to try to have an abortion, but she was also further along than 15 weeks. She arrived without shoes or basic necessities, which Planned Parenthood complained about providing her with.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to managing a health center, we now have to be counselors, providers of basic human needs like clothing and food, and even travel agents,\u201d said Ina McDonald, health center manager of the Tallahassee clinic. \u201cFinding lodging for our out-of-state patients has become a daily responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pro-life pregnancy centers provide pregnant women and girls with these necessities as well as access to health care and housing on a daily basis without encouraging them to kill their preborn children. They also find safe housing and counseling for victims of abuse, yet abortion advocates have been actively working to shut pregnancy centers down by spreading lies<\/a> about them and firebombing<\/a> them. Pregnancy centers would have been happy to provide this young girl with shoes and many other kinds of support.<\/p>\n

No one\u00a0with any compassion or reason would be happy when a nine-year-old girl becomes pregnant. Assaulting a child is a heinous act, and every adult knows that a young girl who becomes pregnant suffered unimaginable pain and trauma at the hands of a child rapist. In addition, young girls are at potentially serious physical risk during pregnancy and labor, as their bodies are less prepared than adult women’s bodies to labor and deliver babies.<\/p>\n