Posted on 05/19/2019 8:12:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Jessica Stallings learned she was pregnant when she was 15. The father was her 22-year-old uncle, she said. He had been raping her since she was 13.
For Stallings, the option of having an abortion in the case of rape or incest wasn’t a hypothetical.
Alabama’s newest abortion ban – described by supporters and opponents as the most restrictive in the country – gained national attention last week in part because it makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
“Most of the people who talk about everything that’s going on, they can say what they think they believe,” she told AL.com, “but you don’t truly realize what someone’s gone through until you’ve walked in their shoes.”
Her oldest child was born just three months after she turned 16, she said, a claim that is corroborated by publicly available court documents and by a conversation with her mother. She had two more children by her uncle, she said, and has been in complicated custody battles with him ever since.
And yet, Stallings said, she did not consider having an abortion. The 32-year-old resident of Jackson County is Republican, staunchly pro-life and supports the law.
“I don’t think there should be an exception for rape and incest,” she said. “All lives are valuable and God created every one of us. My children are just as important, regardless of how they were conceived.”
In the national media last week, Alabama’s male state senators gained attention for passing the abortion bill, while protestors – many of them women, some dressed as handmaids – earned attention outside the State House. But in Alabama, support and opposition don’t fall neatly along gender lines.
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Of the millions of women who murder their babies every year - this woman represents less than ZERO percent.
She’s one in a million - and IF a women in this situation wanted an abortion she could hop on a bus - pay $22 for a bus ticket and ride the two hour bus trip to any of the states touching Alabama...
Was she getting benefits for each child she produced? Was her uncle/lover supporting his children? Or was the taxpayers?
While I agree on the distance business and the $22 ticket to get the procedure...I think their worry is that Mississippi, Georgia, and Tenn would go next and have a similar law. At that point, it goes beyond the 2-hour ride or $22 ticket.
Some people are suggesting it’s more of a test of the Supreme Court, and to demonstrate that Chief Roberts will side to the left....giving Trump the reason to select the RBG replacement (when it occurs) to be another GOP-slanted judge.
The Alabama law does provide an exception for the health of the mother, that would likely apply to situations involving the rape of girls where a pregnancy could be very risky for them.
Abortion is not a solution to rape, incest, or other despicable acts perpetrated on women. Prevention of the abuse in the first place is far more important.
Its a bizarre logic to me how “rape and incest” are exceptions
I know its highly traumatic for the woman, we all understand that.
But what other crime is adjudicated, or is justice served, by executing the innocent bystander to it?
So you support abortion to save tax dollars.
Good to know.
While I appreciate this woman’s Prolife stand, WHY wasn’t her uncle arrested for child rape and what situation could possibly exist for her to have 2 more children with him?
So it’s her fault. Got it.
A study by David Reardon and Julie Makimaa showed that most victims of incest and many victims of rape, and who conceived as a result, were often forced to abort by their abusers, not because the pregnancy was unbearable.
Laws should only be made for the rule, not the exception. We have a jury system to handle the exceptions.
Now, is the uncle in jail and on the sex offender’s list? If not, why not?
Right. The rape thing never made sense. You get murdered because your father was a real *sshole.
There will always be states with legal on-demand abortion laws. So really, we’re just arguing about convenience.
I absolutely never said or implied that!
Someone delivered her baby......she was just 16.....,got pregnant at 15
The doctor should have reported her uncle....he should have been arrested....therefore no babies 2and 3
I support responsibility. If she was going to continue to diddle her uncle why wasn’t she on birth control? Why wasn’t he using a condom? Where was DHS? Sheesh.
So at 14 she seduced her uncle. It was her fault. Glad you cleared that up.
Abortions cost about $800 for a simple first term, 15 minute vacuum...
Profit up the wazoo for abortionists...
Takes more time for a woman to have her nails done than to kill her baby - 15 minutes.
Now answer this: if a 'Beauty Salon' could change $800 to trim, polish and buff a woman's fingernails do you think they'd be willing to spring for a $59 plane ticket to New York? Or Chicago? Or Washington DC. or LA, or Seattle, or or or....for their 'clients'?
I know of a similar case of uncle rape; with the first baby, the abusive parents literally forced her to have an abortion at 14 with Planned Parenthood’s help. The next time pregnant the girl escaped and found her way to a Crisis Pregnancy Center to tell her story. CPC immediately called the police, the uncle was arrested and the girl rescued from her abusive parents. All this was over 10 years ago and she is now happily married with her 2nd child alive and well. She also has other children, but I’m not sure how many.
Um, this was incest. She wasn’t having a consensual relationship with her uncle.
My only question is how this situation was allowed to continue once she got pregnant the first time. Was the rest of her family in so much denial that such a thing could happen? Unfortunately, many families turn their backs on the victims in these cases. And the abortion industry most often helps them to conceal the evidence.
Abortion is murder. Murder is wrong. Her personal experiences don't change that.
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