Interesting case. There are a couple points that I find particularly interesting:
The girl’s feisty desire to keep and have the child despite the negative social connotations.
The presumption on the part of doctors that her small size is necessarily a problem. It is difficult to believe that human evolution occurred sans early pregnancies (as early as biologically possible) and it seems to me that if the machinery is switched on, it’s probably going to work.
While I think, along with most people, it is depraved for adults to sexually prey on children, I think the statutory definitions of what constitutes sexual predation are terribly superficial and not applicable to many real cases. Is there really a single, correct age after which young women should be permitted to get pregnant and, before which, it necessarily constitutes predation or exploitation? I doubt it. As always, the attempts of a central body to regulate such problems is capricious, arbitrary and superficial.
This girl is in the “way too young” category in my mind but, if she wants the child so bad, doesn’t that count for something in a libertarian ethic? After all, it is her body. I am skeptical as to whether she really is fit to make such a decision but, then again, I cannot be certain nor do I have a vested interest in the case.
While I think, along with most people, it is depraved for adults to sexually prey on children, I think the statutory definitions of what constitutes sexual predation are terribly superficial and not applicable to many real cases.
Agreed, although I don’t think anything is ‘depraved’.
i dont know if the story is true or not. has it been confimed anywhere else??
i dont know how this area of mexico feels aobut rape…much less that of an 11 year old.
i guess teh girl didnt wasn to have sex with her stepfather and she was viloently forced into having sex???
if she is pregnant to some extent nature made her body able to get pregnant at 11.
it seems from teh story that various family and community resources ahve stepped in to bring the child to term.
i expect that will continue after the childs birth.
from a family and community perspective (and i expect teh catholic church thet a rape of a child in ones paternal carewould likely involve severe consequences.
How are you defining the term “rape” in this context? Do you mean a violent act of aggression? Or do you mean a re-definition of the word ‘willing’ to mean ‘not willing’ – as the state has redefined that term?
I don’t accept the latter definition, so based on the news story , it’s not clear whether or not a rape (in the real sense of the term) even took place.
How are you defining the term “rape” in this context? Do you mean a violent act of aggression? Or do you mean a re-definition of the word ‘willing’ to mean ‘not willing’ – as the state has redefined that term?
I don’t accept the latter definition, so based on the news story , it’s not clear whether or not a rape (in the real sense of the term) even took place.
agreed. Also on topic, I think that if she really wants a child (given the fact, that she has all information about consequences etc.) then no one has a right stop her.
But see, that’s where I think egoistic libertarianism goes too far - it’s not aggression for me to forcibly grab my 5-year old as he tries to run across the street, even though he knows full well that he could be run over by a car because I have told him in the past that could happen and I am currently yelling it at him, “Stop, you could be run over!” The rules of what constitutes aggression between adult peers do not automatically hold between a child and its relatives who have a stake in ensuring the child’s survival and well-being.
But I do agree that the fact that she wants to keep the child counts for something. I think it’s what makes this case interesting since I really don’t think it’s obvious what exactly is “The Right Thing(R)” in this case.
