A bit of common sense
Good news, if you can call anything “good” after all this girl has been through: An 11-year-old Romanian girl who was previously denied an abortion after her uncle raped her will now be allowed to abort, at 21 weeks. (Would have been earlier if the authorities hadn’t dithered out of base misogyny.) Hopefully she’ll be able to proceed without further delay and start the healing process.
I found this sentence tellling:
Some 20 Christian Orthodox groups had threatened to press charges if the girl was allowed to abort the foetus.
Because apparently, the church owns the bodies of all women, young and old, even if they never noticed their existence before. Lovely.
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