So the mother pretended to be her daughter. She played dumb in text messages, saying she was turning 12. When she was pressed to send provocative photographs of herself, she went to the Sunday newspaper, cut out a Target advertisement featuring a young girl in a bra, lopped off the head and sent along the rest of the picture. The charade worked. Bradley was arrested Friday night on eight counts of displaying obscene images to a minor and eight counts of unlawful use of a two-way communication device. He is being held at the Pinellas County Jail, with bail set at $120,000.Cool story, bro, but why are you telling us? Smith explains:
Now, think about this story in the context of the Obama administration’s decision to allow “women of all ages” — in the parlance of the radical reproductive-rights crowd — to obtain the morning-after pill without supervision. It will be yet another way in which parents could be kept in the dark about what is happening to their own children, perhaps even when they are victims of sexual predation. Truly sickening.Yeah, now when a minor is abused mom won't be tipped off by her pregnancy. Even worse, the girl will lose the possibility of at least getting the blessing of a rape baby out of it.
The bit about "the Obama administration’s decision to allow" when the Administration is actually complying with a court ruling is just more evidence of what happens to your brain and pen when your career is devoted to pious fraud.
Now, think about this story in the context of the Obama administration’s decision to allow “women of all ages” — in the parlance of the radical reproductive-rights crowd — to obtain the morning-after pill without supervision.
ReplyDeleteIs this the same morning-after pill that the actual Administration, and not the one living in Smith's head, actually fought to make only for 17 year olds and older in an unnecessary and arbitrary fashion? Because I think it is and the judge who ruled against them was particularly harsh toward their idiotic stand. Those mediocrities just can't win! Somehow, they keep trying to placate stupidity and smack around hippies and they get no credit at all.
It will be yet another way in which parents could be kept in the dark about what is happening to their own children, perhaps even when they are victims of sexual predation.
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact that kids have access to life vests means parents won't know if they've been playing in deep water, because they won't have drowned. Sickening.
actual Administration may vary depending on the voices in his head.
ReplyDeleteYou have to admit, it's diabolically (heh) clever of him to argue that that morning-after pill is the child-vaginal rapist's best friend. More than a few people will buy this line without thinking it through first.
ReplyDeleteImpressive. Smith can not even bring himself to be properly informed on the issue yet wants to advise other adults when it comes to children. It's nice that mentally sloppy adults have a home at National Review.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't any minor who takes a morning-after pill post-rape be shipped off to juvey for evidence tampering?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/new-mexico-abortion-bill_n_2541894.html
Conservatives will never understand why it's important that children be able to procure contraception and abortion without their parents' knowledge or consent, because as far as they're concerned, parents literally own their children and are entitled to absolute power, even over the child's body.
ReplyDeleteIf a 12-year-old girl gets pregnant - doesn't matter how - and doesn't want to carry the baby to term, but her parents are adamantly pro-life, should her mother be allowed to force her to carry and birth the baby? Conservatives say yes. This is their idea of "family values." It's a monstrous one.
Me, I'm of the opinion that even a 12-year-old's body is still her body.
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ReplyDeleteBut all the girls who get pregnant have not necessarily been raped by predatory men, unless you consider their middle school classmates predatory men. Cultural norms with respect to this vary widely. When I was growing up in privileged upper middle class Jamaica, among my peers sex you could have sex (or smoke or drink or go to disreputable places or let strange men or boys chat you up) OR you could be a nice girl, but not both. when I went to school in England in my teens my classmates did all that stuff:, got staggering drunk, smoked, made out with guys they just met, fucked like minks when they got the chance and thought it all great fun. Not all of them, but certainly the ones who did paid no social penalty for it and took it all as a matter of course.
ReplyDeleteAlso there's a good chance that, inthe case of a predatory man he's someone that the victim knows--a family member or friend, and the victim may have very good reasons for not wanting to share this information with her mother such as a family climate of denial that has taught her that she is basically on her own. In such a case the victim's right to look after her own welfare ought to take priority over the mothers right to continue to fail to look after her. The law can't compel a girl to trust her mother, and that was always the weak point in banning the morning after pill.
I thought the condom was the child-vaginal rapist's best friend. That, and the usual, non-emergency contraceptive pill.
ReplyDeleteIt would be much simpler to pass a law that granted all twelve-year-olds a trusting and honest relationship with responsible parents.
ReplyDeleteAnd a pony.
Now, you see, you took a wrong turn when you started worrying about the girl's life. Seven years or seventy, it pales in comparison to the eternal fate of her soul.
ReplyDeleteNo, they really do think like that. Which is why theocratic fuckwits should be shot on sight.
Actually, I think it all comes back to their problem with the concept of consent. They don't understand it when it's applied by someone other than their own personal selves.
ReplyDeleteI'd just like to know how you get to a place where the only sign that your child is being sexually abused - or having consensual sex for that matter - is a lucky bun in the oven. Maybe it's just a matter of being generally oblivious.
ReplyDeleteJonah is their mascot. What more do you need to know?
ReplyDeleteIsn't that what kia just said? ; )
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah. Contraception in any form is obstruction of justice!
ReplyDeleteWell, ultimately that's all just window dressing for "women have no value except as incubators."
ReplyDeleteHome environments that inculcate sexual abuse generally do so because all the should-be responsible adults in the child's life are willing to look the other way.
ReplyDeleteRead a little closer By all means, the morning after pill should be available to them...
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering how so many people suddenly KNOW what's best for twelve year-old girls. Having once been a twelve year-old girl, I KNOW that I would have jumped at the chance to get out. I could have gone to live with the sane, middle-class half of my family and not been buggered and not suffered all kinds of other abuses.
Predators are very good at making their victims feel responsible for what the predator does to them, and they also often threaten to hurt the child or someone else if the child tells. Predators are also very good at finding women who are too damaged and weak to defend their daughters or even to know what's going on because they had their alarms turned off by unrelenting abuse as children and no one ever told them that they could learn to turn the alarms back on.
It is the state's responsibility to intervene on behalf of a child who is being abused. There are people who are trained to have conversations with victims and parents who just found out and suitably devastated by the revelation, and the state should make those people available to children who are pregnant.
If the child is having consensual sex with someone her age, then she could be offered birth control and the sex education she needs in order to understand her body, how to care for it, what birth control is available and how to use it, and how to avoid sexually transmitted disease. And it would be a great benefit for all girls and women to be informed about the laws that effect their reproductive options, and were told that they have the right to decline sex--- ALWAYS. Girls deserve a better sex education that the one they get from equally young boys or porn.
It's all too easy for a child who is being sexually abused to believe that no one will believe her/him, or that nobody really cares. By all means, let her have the pill, but letting a pregnant child walk out with a pill without at least giving her a number to call if she wants help is telling her that the society's only concern is that she end her pregnancy.
All this applies to boy victims as well, but they shouldn't be asking for the pill, because they don't get pregnant.
Yes, with the condom you take the DNA evidence with you. You don't have to depend on a twelve-year-old to obligingly acquire and take a pill.
ReplyDeleteThe part about the mother playing "to catch a predator" was cool - you lost me after that :-(
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"feminists are insisting that a woman shouldn't know if her daughter is being sexually abused"
ReplyDeleteWhich feminists are insisting this? Being able to buy a morning-after pill is exactly the same as "insisting" that parents be kept in ignorance? I call BS.
Yeah, I read it. Your whole post makes sense, except for the part where you want to make CVS into a counseling center and the sexual assault police, by not making Plan B available, no questions asked.
ReplyDeleteIf you require all that stuff, it's going to turn some girls away, even older ones. And some of them are going to get pregnant who otherwise wouldn't have.
If there's a non-intrusive way to accomplish getting the above information to anyone who buys Plan B (sexual assault hotline numbers required on the box?) that's a great idea, but it seems to me that what we know of kids and teens suggests that it's a bad idea to require that they tell someone what's going on as a condition of getting Plan B, because many will choose not to get Plan B to avoid having that conversation.
It's more than pious fraud. These are morons, but I am truly stating the obvious. Not one of them clocks in with an IQ above 90, and I am probably being generous.
ReplyDeleteSo the girl tells her mother and they trap the creep online. But if Plan B had been available to the girl, she wouldn't have told her mother? She'd have allowed herself to be raped, because she needn't have gotten pregnant?
ReplyDeleteWhy don't these clowns just read or watch pornography and whack off to whatever litany of "moral values" runs in their fevered minds while so doing? Why subject the rest of us poor schmucks to their perversity? What did we ever do to them?
What did we ever do to them?
ReplyDeletePushed their boots off our necks?
What did we ever do to them?
ReplyDeleteGot up in the morning and lived ordinary lives without falling down in terror in front of their idols, mainly.
She was a good deal less sarcastic and more thorough.
ReplyDeleteI will be the first to admit that I certainly don't know what's best for an abused twelve year old. I do know that being abused, alone, and pregnant is worse than abused and alone. So maybe we can do a little something about that.
ReplyDeleteI also wish we'd do more to support the people in our society who need help. We could cancel a couple of F-35s and get a few more thousand social workers out there giving basic parenting lessons. Or dragging the kids with their tails on fire in to get birth control. Or--oh, fuck it, the list could go on for pages.
Not wasting any more time, money, and effort defending a useless and arbitrary age restriction is just one tiny step in the right direction.
What did we ever do to them?
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By all means, let her have the pill, but letting a pregnant child walk out with a pill without at least giving her a number to call if she wants help is telling her that the society's only concern is that she end her pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a bit different from "mandatory counseling." And, with all due respect to your personal situation, I make decisions regarding laws for all sorts of classes of people that I am not or never have been, either directly through referenda or indirectly through my representatives in government.
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ReplyDeleteRaising a child fathered by your rapist is a blessing from God, say many men who are outraged at having to pay child support to that evil bitch who divorced them.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm --- I didn't know you could get pregnant over the intertubes.
ReplyDeleteActually, they can legally consent to sex --- with other kids their own age.
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