Posted this morning by:
National Right to Life News Today, Dec. 7, 2011 By Jonathan Imbody, Vice President for Government Relations, Christian Medical Association, Director, Freedom2Care
Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, New York Republican, protested that under the new abortion referral requirement [for agencies serving youth victims of human trafficking applying for Federal funds], “Now we are going to ask 12-year-olds to make life-changing decisions. You don’t know the trauma of abortion. This will only add to the trauma already experienced by the victims.”
Ann Marie Buerkle wants us to believe that:
going through a "normal" pregnancy with a child's immature mind and body; and
having a baby of a rapist, one of your dozens or hundreds of rapists, whom you will never identify, at 12 or 13 years old (to go with Buerkle's example); and
after living as a prisoner and in bondage for months or years; and
ignoring the STDs including HIV that you may have contracted; and
the effect these STDs will have on your baby; and
ignoring your own long-term lack of health care and vulnerability to a wide range of non-sexually transmitted diseases; and
having lost your support network, your family and your culture; and
removing your right to CHOOSE to keep or not to keep, even at this young age, and thereby disempowering you further;
are all preferable to abortion. How is it possible that Buerkle believes that ignoring all these factors could even remotely be a better choice?
Buerkle, get this, loud and clear: Being FORCED to go through with such a pregnancy and producing a baby who, along with the pre-teen mother, has zero chance of living a normal and healthy life, is CRUEL and IRRATIONAL.
Yes, you are right: Blueskygirl is shouting. Sorry.
Both the foetus, if you, Buerkle, proud mother who gave birth to six chosen, beautiful and healthy children, require it to be born and if it survives its high-risk pregnancy, and the child-mother, if she survives her high-risk pregnancy, will have nil chances for lives free of severe health issues, severe emotional issues, poverty and very little opportunity of access to any semblance of a good life.
And please don't tell me that these infants, and these 12-year olds, will be adopted into loving homes. There is not, never has been, and never will be, an inexhaustible supply of loving homes for high-risk infants or pre-teens of any cultural background, including "white." When was the last time you adopted a needy baby, or any child, Buerkle?
And, for God's sake, we remember, loud and clear, that you, Buerkle, have suggested that we diminish or take away the scant medical services that both these victims of human trafficking may ever see.
Oh, please.
Blueskygirl's suggestion: way better to find out how to arrest and throw the book at the traffickers and pedophiles.
Way worse to blame and punish, by your stupid politics, the victims.
