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The senate has decided to pass legislation that would make it illegal to transport a minor out of state for an abortion. They also decided NOT to pass legislation to create new pregnancy-prevention programs. In a nutshell it says "Yes we want teenagers to get pregnant and we want them to have those babies". Personally I expect them to pass laws next mandating that women be denied education, remove their right to vote and own land, and cover themselves from head to toe to "prevent satanic stimulation of the male mind".

Yep it's fabulous that the senate had decided to reward fathers and abusers who inflict themselves on minors with yet another way to ensure that girls can't get out of the trap they've been abused into. Dandy. Yes it's so very family oriented - nothing says 'family values' more than giving birth to your own brother.

Of course there's the attitude that Grandma shouldn't be trying to interfere is Daddy wants a piece of his little girl. They're protecting parental rights, of course. The idea is that parents, not the minor is the one with the best interest of their daughter, and anyone can tell you that the best interest of a ten or twelve year old is to have the responsibility of a baby, stunt their own growth by carrying a pregnancy to term in a body that's not fully mature, and basically shatter any possibility of a future into a thousand bloody shards.

I'm sorry you simply cannot convince me that a minor should be forced to carry a child to term. You can't even convince me that a minor should even have that child if they want to. Show me a thirteen year old mother that's successful, who never had hardship, who managed both the education of herself and her baby into a prosperous career. Have her write me a letter - I'd be happy to hear why I'm wrong.

Still I will give the senate republicans consistency. In an age where thoroughly useless and mindless devotion to dark-age pregnancy prevention programs (abstinence) gets money hand over fist, and honest to goodness practices like condoms get denied mention it's not a surprise. The family fanatics feel the necessity to force reproduction on everyone, a little something borrowed from the Taliban here in America to make us all feel a bit more cultured.

You know what? This law isn't about the protection of the american family. It's about posturing and politics. It's about misogyny. It's about protecting the 'head of the family' in Utah. It's about how molesting little girls and getting away with it is now part of the American way...