I struggled to find the least destructive words to tell my son of our shared paternity
A child of rape or child of incest.

This podcast took a lot out of me to produce as I became enraged reading the number of times that I saw politicians, leaders of anti-abortion groups, and religious groups proclaim a 10 year girl should be forced to have a child conceived by rape or incest.

How is it possible that these young girls' bodies, minds, and their hopes, dreams and futures be sacrificed because some man decided he had the right to rape her.

Why should they be reduced to collateral damage for the righteous of the anti-abortion movement

Greetings

This second episode of my Roe v Wade the New Jane Crow discusses the abortion exception bans for those impregnanted by rape and incest.  It provides the history of the American Legal Institute a nonpartisan group of lawyers, scholars, and judges that proposed a broader group of exceptions which included - threaten  health of the mother, certain fetal abnormalities, and rape and incest

Yet, since the overturn of Roe v Wade many states have outright ban these exceptions and others have imposed arduous challenges via reporting processes and time lines for abortions. 

The question, I keep asking is what happened to this country, where is our compassion, how is that the unborn has more rights then those victimized by rape and incest.

I hope you enjoy this episode

theresa