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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums12-Year-Old Incest Victims Should Birth Dad's Child, Says Speaker Gunn (Mississippi)
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NEW: A 12-year-old child victim of rape and incest should be forced to carry and birth her father's child, Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says.
Even in such cases, he opposes abortion exceptions.
"Every life is valuable," Gunn said.
mississippifreepress.org
12-Year-Old Incest Victims Should Birth Dads Child, Says Speaker Gunn
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says abortion should be illegal even for a 12-year-old rape and incest victim.
10:34 AM · Jun 29, 2022
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NEW: A 12-year-old child victim of rape and incest should be forced to carry and birth her father's child, Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says.
Even in such cases, he opposes abortion exceptions.
"Every life is valuable," Gunn said.
mississippifreepress.org
12-Year-Old Incest Victims Should Birth Dads Child, Says Speaker Gunn
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says abortion should be illegal even for a 12-year-old rape and incest victim.
10:34 AM · Jun 29, 2022
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/25273/12-year-old-incest-victims-should-birth-dads-child-house-speaker-gunn-says
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says abortion should be illegal even for a 12-year-old rape victim carrying her father or uncles child. He made the remark to reporters in the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, allowing state abortion bans to take effect.
What about the case of a 12-year-old girl who was molested by her father or uncle? Associated Press reporter Emily Wagster Pettus asked the Republican speaker on the Mississippi House floor on Friday, June 24.
Gunn said he did not know what the Legislatures appetite would be for ensuring child rape and incest victims could obtain abortions. The states 15-week abortion ban does not include rape exceptions, but a 2007 Roe v. Wade trigger law that could become effective soon would allow rape exceptions early in a pregnancy only if the rape was reported to law enforcementwhich does not happen in most incest cases.
No, (the law) does not include an exception for incest, Gunn said. I dont know that that will be changed.
*snip*
I hate these people in the Biblical sense.
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12-Year-Old Incest Victims Should Birth Dad's Child, Says Speaker Gunn (Mississippi) (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jun 2022
OP
I wish something a thousand times worse than being forced to birth your own sister
onecaliberal
Jun 2022
#4
Sounds like he knows an exception for incest will depopulate white Mississippi.
Aristus
Jun 2022
#16
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)1. Whatever it takes
to stay the poorest State in the Union.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)2. I agree. The 12 yr old's life is very valuable.
What a pig .
Thtwudbeme
(7,737 posts)3. These people are both cruel and stupid- a deadly combination
It's just so sad and maddening.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)4. I wish something a thousand times worse than being forced to birth your own sister
on these republicans.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)5. "Every life is valuable" -- except the 12-year-old girl's.
He doesn't give a shit what happens to her.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)12. Exactly. nt
Maeve
(42,282 posts)18. True that. My first thought. She's just an incubator. Eom
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)6. An example of why Mississippi is so F'ed with politicians like this. n/t
malaise
(269,054 posts)7. Mad men doesn't describe these monsters
They can now select their choice for baby mother at any age.
They are depraved.
Diamond_Dog
(32,006 posts)8. Would it make any difference to this repugnant troglodyte
If it was his 12 year old daughter who was raped by a male relative?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)14. No because he'd take her somewhere it's legal, obvs (nt)
budkin
(6,703 posts)9. These "god fearin" cretins are sick
Disgusting.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)10. I hope this guy births a watermelon through his pecker.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)24. We could always hope for kidney stones. nt
Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)11. Except if that 12-year-old is a Republican legislator's daughter nt
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)13. These laws don't apply to the rich, just the poor and middle class.
The rich have always been able to get safe abortions for their family and mistresses.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)15. That's how he became a granddaddy.
Just my guess.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)16. Sounds like he knows an exception for incest will depopulate white Mississippi.
It's a little weird when they come right out and say it.
Nevilledog
(51,122 posts)19. Dickhead on video
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Here's the moment when Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn told journalists that he believes even 12-year-old girls raped by their fathers and uncles should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term because "every life is valuable."
https://mississippifreepress.org/25273/12-year-old-incest-victims-should-birth-dads-child-house-speaker-gunn-says
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11:10 AM · Jun 29, 2022
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Here's the moment when Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn told journalists that he believes even 12-year-old girls raped by their fathers and uncles should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term because "every life is valuable."
https://mississippifreepress.org/25273/12-year-old-incest-victims-should-birth-dads-child-house-speaker-gunn-says
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11:10 AM · Jun 29, 2022
milestogo
(16,829 posts)21. The pregnancy could kill that young girl and the baby.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)25. And in a state where maternal mortality rates are the worst. nt
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)22. ...
TomWilm
(1,832 posts)23. It is God's will...