4 Year-Old Gives Birth, Strangles Baby To Death And Gets Facebook Supporters
05-02-2013, 02:09 AM
http://itsybitsysteps.com/14-year-old-ch...n-shoebox/
The "alleged" killer:
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The story is horrific and she deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; however, the comments on the article are interesting and awful. Let's step through some of them.
“She's 14 - she needs help - probably felt very alone and totally frightened by her situation. Killing the baby was horrible of course - but putting her in prison for life or some major length like that isn't going to do anyone any good.”
Except the baby boy she murdered.
“Planned Parenthood is a life saver. WOMEN NEED THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE..so sittuations this HORRIFIC dont happen. If abortion was illegal this would be happeneing much more often. SAD..so sad”
Great logic. Abortion is legal, generally. States cannot restrict any abortion in the first trimester. If this woman is arguing for legal 3rd trimester abortion, she should check up the Kermit Gosnell trial. While I am ambivalent about 1st trimester abortion, I am 100% against late term abortion.
“What's sad is our teens have no real knowledge of sex and pregnancy and birth now a days with all this abstinence only training. I feel for this little girl and for the poor infant that lost its life in such a horrific manner. She is obviously mentally disturbed, to try and flush the baby and then to suffocate it, its just crazy. I hope she gets the help she need while in prison.”
Already, women are building her defense – you think they would do the same for a man? And this BS about how only teens know about sex and pregnancy is from abstinence-only education is, frankly, ignorant. Teen girls know damn well what they are doing. This woman apparently thinks if girls are told about what pregnancy is, they wouldn’t do what? Have sex? Get pregnant?
This comment quoted above spawned a long comment section. Here is another gem in the thread:
“In a society where there is so much information and resources available, why are so many so ignorant and end up pregnant? The media,video games,etc pushes sex and the young girls and women respond. No one wants to really take a look at this and make change due freedom of speech, and ratings. Dolls are sexier, self-esteem is lower,there are teen mom shows glamorizing it, music/shows promotes sex and demeans women, young girls are self medicating in order to perform.”
First point, is sex is certainly pushed by the media. Feminists have long fought to be sluts with social approval – although, there is criticism of the sexualization of women in the media. However, this is another implicitly blank-slatist argument. Women are responding to alphas and sexy men running the show. Eliminating media influence can't stop the programming of human sexuality.
Second, this woman wants to alter the 1st amendment so that the media won’t be able to sexualize women they way they do – think that will apply to men? I made an argument once in school in a paper that if feminists want to ban pornography, they will have to ban romance novels and all that garbage, as well – for gender equality. It did not go over well, but the point here is that women want the beauty “standards” lowered, while they jack up the bar for men – novelized in Fifty Shades of Grey.
The mother of all hamsterbations in the comments is this:
“I hope the mother can wake up and realize she wasn't at fault”
I don’t need to tell you this is bullshit. She fucked up. Either women have agency or they do not. If they don’t, then no more voting, property owning or anything. If they do (which they do), then they have to be held responsible for their actions. Now, it seems this young lady was in a tough spot – according to her perception, so she could be dead-wrong – but she killed her son. A new-born baby, born into this world scared and confused, got drowned in a toilet by her own mother. Nothing, in my mind, can be so horrific, disgusting and downright awful. You murder your children – burn in Hell.
Telling this woman she wasn’t at fault won’t help her, it will hurt her. She needs to come to terms with the fact she killed her son. She obviously felt guilty, as she hid her pregnancy and hid the body. So, she clearly feels guilty, but what comes next is important for her psychology. A psychologically healthy person will admit what they did was wrong, and work to come to terms with what they did. Sometimes people in this sort of situation, when they get out of prison, they will dedicate their lives to some caused related to childbirth or adoption.
“Great job standing up to a religious bully with class, Ebony. You are an inspiration. More power to women to make your own decisions about your bodies.”
A live child is not a decision about your body. Period.
The "alleged" killer:
The story is horrific and she deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; however, the comments on the article are interesting and awful. Let's step through some of them.
“She's 14 - she needs help - probably felt very alone and totally frightened by her situation. Killing the baby was horrible of course - but putting her in prison for life or some major length like that isn't going to do anyone any good.”
Except the baby boy she murdered.
“Planned Parenthood is a life saver. WOMEN NEED THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE..so sittuations this HORRIFIC dont happen. If abortion was illegal this would be happeneing much more often. SAD..so sad”
Great logic. Abortion is legal, generally. States cannot restrict any abortion in the first trimester. If this woman is arguing for legal 3rd trimester abortion, she should check up the Kermit Gosnell trial. While I am ambivalent about 1st trimester abortion, I am 100% against late term abortion.
“What's sad is our teens have no real knowledge of sex and pregnancy and birth now a days with all this abstinence only training. I feel for this little girl and for the poor infant that lost its life in such a horrific manner. She is obviously mentally disturbed, to try and flush the baby and then to suffocate it, its just crazy. I hope she gets the help she need while in prison.”
Already, women are building her defense – you think they would do the same for a man? And this BS about how only teens know about sex and pregnancy is from abstinence-only education is, frankly, ignorant. Teen girls know damn well what they are doing. This woman apparently thinks if girls are told about what pregnancy is, they wouldn’t do what? Have sex? Get pregnant?
This comment quoted above spawned a long comment section. Here is another gem in the thread:
“In a society where there is so much information and resources available, why are so many so ignorant and end up pregnant? The media,video games,etc pushes sex and the young girls and women respond. No one wants to really take a look at this and make change due freedom of speech, and ratings. Dolls are sexier, self-esteem is lower,there are teen mom shows glamorizing it, music/shows promotes sex and demeans women, young girls are self medicating in order to perform.”
First point, is sex is certainly pushed by the media. Feminists have long fought to be sluts with social approval – although, there is criticism of the sexualization of women in the media. However, this is another implicitly blank-slatist argument. Women are responding to alphas and sexy men running the show. Eliminating media influence can't stop the programming of human sexuality.
Second, this woman wants to alter the 1st amendment so that the media won’t be able to sexualize women they way they do – think that will apply to men? I made an argument once in school in a paper that if feminists want to ban pornography, they will have to ban romance novels and all that garbage, as well – for gender equality. It did not go over well, but the point here is that women want the beauty “standards” lowered, while they jack up the bar for men – novelized in Fifty Shades of Grey.
The mother of all hamsterbations in the comments is this:
“I hope the mother can wake up and realize she wasn't at fault”
I don’t need to tell you this is bullshit. She fucked up. Either women have agency or they do not. If they don’t, then no more voting, property owning or anything. If they do (which they do), then they have to be held responsible for their actions. Now, it seems this young lady was in a tough spot – according to her perception, so she could be dead-wrong – but she killed her son. A new-born baby, born into this world scared and confused, got drowned in a toilet by her own mother. Nothing, in my mind, can be so horrific, disgusting and downright awful. You murder your children – burn in Hell.
Telling this woman she wasn’t at fault won’t help her, it will hurt her. She needs to come to terms with the fact she killed her son. She obviously felt guilty, as she hid her pregnancy and hid the body. So, she clearly feels guilty, but what comes next is important for her psychology. A psychologically healthy person will admit what they did was wrong, and work to come to terms with what they did. Sometimes people in this sort of situation, when they get out of prison, they will dedicate their lives to some caused related to childbirth or adoption.
“Great job standing up to a religious bully with class, Ebony. You are an inspiration. More power to women to make your own decisions about your bodies.”
A live child is not a decision about your body. Period.
