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Re: Abortion??? -
April 23rd 2010, 10:25 AM
My niece is 10 almost 11 and she started her period the end of last year. I worry constantly about her getting pregnant either by rape/molestation or by meeting some little boy and the two of them doing something stupid. I know that both her parents are against abortion but I think if this happened they would be all for it.
I am sorry but a 10 year old should not be forced to have a baby. Even if this little girl were not raped. If she met some 11 or 12 year old boy and the two of them ended up having 'consensual' sex I cannot see forcing the child to have the baby.
Here is my question though; at what age would it be alright for a young girl to have a baby if she ended up having consensual sex with someone? 12, 13, 14, 15? TBH we can argue that an older child should know more about sex than a younger child but that really is not always the case. My niece for example knows that in order for someone to have a baby they have to have sex. She has also learned what sex is. Whereas my friends niece who is 12 has yet to really grasp that fact. She is waay to sheltered. Should she be forced to have a baby? IDK. I think that this is why things like that are tricky because everyone's circumstances are different.
Another example of this; my aunt was 14 and she never really grasped the concept of sex = a baby. Her maturity lever or whatever couldn't get over that. She only really figured it out because of some stuff that ended up happening to her.
I mean, I would like to think that today kids are more knowledgeable on things like this but you really would be surprised and how many people are ignorant or what not.
I think that for a lot of young woman they have a hard time understanding the fact that sex=pregnancy. They might have the general concept but they are too much into the idea that it could never happen to them. They are too self centered to see the whole picture. But that is not their fault because teenage years are when kids go back to the 'egocentric' stage.
I think I am ranting and not making much sense. But I guess my point is is how do we make laws on something with such a broad range of outcomes.
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