It’s not hard for me to conceive of, because I’ve met a girl in the exact position Pamela Brown described. She was 12, raped by a family friend and forced to carry the pregnancy to term because she lives in Honduras, where abortion is illegal in nearly all cases (in the story I wrote about her, I gave her the pseudonym “Sofia”). When I met her, she was heavily pregnant and clutching a stuffed bunny – her primary confidante about a situation she didn’t quite understand. The thing about children is that they trust adults; and young children, like Sofia, don’t always know what sex is, or what rape is, or what pregnancy entails. When Sofia found out she was going to have a baby, she asked if she could have a doll instead.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/opinions/abortion-ban-rape-exception-republicans-filipovic/index.html
This is what I was writing about in another article. I had mentioned in another article that i know someone that was told by her parents that babies come from kissing. So, even at 18 or 20 years of age or more she still believed this. So, when you don't share with your children the truth about where babies come from early enough, this is the kind of thing that can happen (even to a 12 year old who might have just got her period for the first time).
I liked the part where the girl asked whether she could have a doll instead?
This shows you the real problem with rape when young ones don't even understand what rape is. If you don't even know what is happening to you, you cannot prevent it from happening. This is just reality.
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