did you bring some rocks so you can stone her and the baby?

Teenagers give birth in all sorts of bathrooms.  Airplane restrooms, school restrooms, and now home in the shower. 

The miscarriage on the airplane wasn't actually birth but that doesn't stop the general public from commenting and giving the rest of us a perfect example of how Enlightenment thinking that we get smarter and progress is so very, very wrong.  Comments about police questioning of the young girl who dropped a fetus in the trash were amazingly ignorant.  Some of my feminist sisters, careful to make pregnancy and miscarriage a hateful statement said, why did the police question her?  It isn't like miscarriage is a crime?  Are the police experts in fetus development?  Do they know if a fetus is malformed, or full term, or ready to enter the country illegally?  A person, including oppressed women of minority persuasions cannot simply dump genetic material resembling a human being into the nearest trash receptacle and wash their hands.   Too be fair, no girl or woman regardless or race, color, alienage, or religious persuasion can do same such act, either. 

There will be questions.  Probably few problem solving answers, but there will be questions.

Did the police offer to take her to the hospital?  Some dumb ass would surely wonder out loud in the comment section of the newspaper or even here on this blog, who was going to pick up the hospital bill.

Or the middle school student who delivered in a school restroom after the school nurse told her to get back to class with her menstrual cramps.  The girl walked into the school toilet and gave birth and tried to flush the full term infant down the toilet.  She doesn't remember what happened.  Of course every expert on being under 16 and facing a life threatening trauma like giving birth without the aid of a saddle block in a junior high school public restroom after the nurse ignored the fact she was pregnant and in labor doesn't buy her story that she simply doesn't remember at least one of the top five traumatic things that ever happened to her. No one who knew the girl knew she was pregnant including her friends, her friends' mothers, the school nurse, the teachers, the gym teacher, the science teacher, and her own mother. 

But we certainly believe combat victims of violence don't remember what happened to them or others, unless of course we don't.  It has only taken us almost 90 years to accept something once called "shell shock" as post traumatic stress disorder.

Well, getting pregnant at 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, is at least as stressful as combat, especially when these children are often impregnated by grown men, funny uncles, their older brother, or their older brother's friends, or a teacher or coach, or their own fathers,  and many, many young people live with a level of violence that certainly is not being discussed at dinner tables and presidential campaigns.

And everyone has an opinion.  But no answers, talent or ability to discuss public policy problems.  Can we have a one year moratorium on commenting on things we don't understand?  Can we ban snarkiness as some indication of intelligence.  Can everyone shut the hell up?

Now comes this, as they say in court cases, a young girl goes into labor in the shower in the morning before school.  She hadn't told mom she was pregnant because she didn't want to wind up in the streets.  She did make arrangements to live with a friend if her mother did indeed throw her out.  She gives birth and doesn't kill her infant son.  She wraps the baby up, gets dressed, and walks four blocks to the hospital. 

The hospital didn't judge her or her son.  Placenta and umbilical cord intact, they told her "Don't move."  They helped her.

No recriminations.  No stoning.  Just medical attention.  They didn't hurt her.  They helped her.  And may be mom and dad, who wouldn't comment while their daughter held their grandson and talked to the press--smart girl--may be someone will help her pay for day care so she can finish high school and work in a hospital like she wants to when as she says, she "grows up," will help her, too.

But those who often care to comment in one of America's newspapers are so stunned by their own inability to grasp reality, they really don't  have anything but hatred and anger for a stand up, courageous young woman and her innocent son.  Same people who criticize her and her baby played dice for Christ's robe.

Comments

[Anntichrist S. Coulter]

A little sex ed goes a long fucking way.

Is it true that y'all don't have county health units in Texas? Even here in Vatican West, we have parish health units that distribute free birth control pills (unless you're an aging old smoker spinster like me) AND Plan-B pills upon demand, all ya gotta do is submit to the world's most horrible pap smear and getting felt-up by a sexist, senile old fuck who calls himself a doctor.

I'm glad that the "Safe Haven" program is working, but I'd be a helluva lot happier if somebody would BUY THESE GIRLS SOME GAWDDAMNED RUBBERS!!!!!! Gold Circle Coins, if they still make 'em, will stop a MACK TRUCK.

And we know all too well how many of these babies having babies are victims of rape, incest, molestation, you name the felony... but most of THOSE scumbags are damned and determined not to go to jail, so they don't wan to LEAVE any DNA evidence. Less post-partum trauma, but also less material with which to convince the fucking pigs to press the fucking charges, as well.

Fucking LOVE the Kit-Kat Klock widget, btw!!! I have a Kit-Kat Klock, but it's put away in a box, because Dullard McDumbass KNOCKED IT OFF OF THE FUCKING WALL, and it costs almost as much to fix the damned things as it does to buy a new one.

And might I ask, WTF is up with the crime-scene photo? Anybody we know? Do we need a woodchipper and some quicklime?