Making a child give birth is an attack on the concept of childhood

[ck4829]

Our system isn't perfect, it could always use more and more reform, but not letting 11 year old girls become mothers is a step in the right direction.

Let's work to ensure it wasn't a step in the right direction.

Childhood is a social construct, but it's one that has created a degree of social equality... that it doesn't matter if you are poor or rich, if you are a CHILD, you shouldn't be working or being a mother, you shouldn't be worried about money or carrying children, you should be learning, socializing, and having fun.

This isn't a coincidence, this isn't a bug, an unintended consequence of the right wing agenda. The concept of a universal childhood is a blow against social stratification, the child of a richer-than-God parent has something in common with the child of a poorer-than-dirt parent. And of course if these bans go through, the child of a richer-than-God parent won't be forced to give birth, it's not going to happen, we all know that.

The right wing at it's core likes social stratification, it desires it, it sees it as normal and even a good thing. Heck, this goes back to the very root of left vs right in the French Revolution; somebody is supposed to be a king and somebody is supposed to be a peasant.

It's funny, we're being told people on the Democratic side and the Republican side need to stop being divided and come together, yet here we are, creating divisions between the rich and the poor, making the class system more and more real, more palpable.

[raging moderate]

1. Yes. And we are making the class system more rigid, more permanent.

Or rather, THEY are trying to do that. We must continue to resist.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. This is an interesting take.

OTOH, the number of people who get abortions who are younger than 15 represent less than .2% of all abortions. Still, it's a good point.

[shraby]

3. It is cruelty to children plain and simple, as is putting children in cages.

This is the republican of today. Cruel, uncompromising, greedy, unlawful and a host of other bad traits.

[The Blue Flower]

4. It's child abuse

A child will never recover from the physical and emotional trauma of a full-term pregnancy and delivery.

[Wounded Bear]

5. OTOH, we have a problem with "adults" who have never grown up...

It's not just the asshole in the White House. All of the instant gratification and mindless dedication to pop icons and TV shows is not really "adult" behavior.

We've become a culture that is in so many ways barely out of adolescence. Voting for a reality TV character is a symptom of the disease.

[mopinko]

6. we are devolving. long childhoods are required for our complex brains

to acquire our full potential.
between 11 yo mothers, and 12 yo heroes in school shootings, we are skidding backwards.