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Ohio GOP lawmaker pushes total abortion ban forcing rape victims 'no matter how young' to give birth

Abortion will not heal the emotional scars of rape.

GOP state Rep. Jean Schmidt is pushing her legislation to completely and totally ban all abortion in Ohio, with no exceptions, not even for rape or incest.

On Wednesday she told her fellow lawmakers “there is an opportunity” for a woman who has been raped, “no matter how young or old she is, to make a determination about what she’s going to do to help that life be a productive human being.”

In the U.S., according to Live Science, most girls biologically can get pregnant and give birth as early as 11 or 12 – that’s generally 6th or 7th grade.

Rep. Schmidt also said a rapist’s child should not under any circumstances be aborted because they could be the person who cures cancer. There are many other outcomes, especially for an unwanted child, one could imagine.

Criticism against Schmidt has been strong.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/ohio-no-matter-how-young/?utm_source=123456&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10371