Man Shot After He Admits Impregnating His Girlfriend's 11-Year-Old Daughter

You don't know this 11 year old girl.  I had an irresponsible mother and was raising my two younger sisters by that time I was 11.  I made more adult decisions than my mother every day and ultimately I was the one to get us out of there and to a better place.  For all you know this little girl has seen more in life than you have and probably knows what she wants to do.  You don't even know that she needs to be reminded to wear a bra because you don't know her.  To you its no big deal to abort but to that young girl it may be, and its her body and she is the one that has to live with it.  If the mother was protecting her daughter this wouldn't have happened to her.  To you its a second chance for her it might be one more heartbreak. 

Also just because you would rush your child to the nearest abortion center doesn't mean everyone would or that its the right choice. Maybe the little girl does want to abort and if so then she should, but you all should remember these are your opinions and it doesn't make you right. Complications happen in abortions as well as pregnancy and there is no way to know which would be worse. I say let the girl have input or deal with issue's later after taking the choice away from her. Think about it for a minute. She had no choices up until this point for her body and now you want to take one more choice from her. That is not right and I think another violation to her rights. I will say it again, I think the mother and daughter should sit down with a doctor and discuss everything and then they should make the decision together.

Rubster I am so sorry for what happened to you.  Just like I wouldn't speak for you I wont speak for anyone else.  You don't know this girl and you don't know whats best for her.  All I am saying is she should get a say in what happens to her body now that she's had choices taken away from her.  How you feel about carrying your rapist baby is different from how some other women feel.  You aren't wrong and neither are they and none of us should tell you how to feel or how to act.  Taking away this little girls choices isn't going to do her any favors.  For all we know if she was asked she would say she wanted to abort.  If the pro choice movement is saying no one has the right to tell you what to do with your body how is this any different.  She shouldn't have had this forced on her and she shouldn't have anything else forced on her either.

Holy smokes- I'd be terminating this kid's pregnancy so fast!  There ain't no "my body, my choice" with MY 11 year old;  at that age,  I didn't let my kid do whatever she wanted to do in terms of types of clothing, doing homework, eating nutritionally empty food, staying up late, whatever.   I sure as heck wouldn't be letting her be in charge of the decision to have a baby.  Perhaps an abortion would leave lasting scars; but so does rape, and so would childbirth or trying to raise a child when you're a baby yourself.  Now its true that this particular kid has already been through and seen a lot, but really this kid has already been through and seen enough.  It would be awful to pile on more crap just because she's already been through so much crap.  Its not like being raped and terrorized and traumatized helps kids mature or anything...

I'm not saying my exepierence and reasoning is the same as any other victim's, or if a vicitm does get pregnant she should just abort without a second thought. My point here is that this poor kid has enough trauma to deal with, the adults in her life should start owning up to their responsibilties and draw the line at what a child is capable of dealing with. I don't think any 11 year old, victim or not, has the mental/cognitive capacity, no matter how much info she has at her disposal, to make an informed decision about something like this.

I guess we will have to disagree.  I think she should get a say.  How many choices can you take away from a person?  Even as a pro life person I would take my daughter to do it at eleven years old if that's what she wanted.  If at first she said she wanted to keep it we would have a very long talk about all of the consequences involved in making that decision medical and long term, and if she decided to abort I would take her.  I would as a mother I while admit even advocate for her aborting and quickly, but I can't imagine doing it without letting her have a say in it.  I'm not perfect so I'm willing I could be wrong about this but its what feels right to me, and like I said I wouldn't want it for my child especially as a pro life person but I'll admit before commenting I looked up the side effects and I don't know that it would be a risk I wanted to take.  But still it feels right to me to respect my daughter as a person and ask her.

The mother needs to be shot too. She let that disgusting man near her daughter.

It baffles me how some of you are saying you would MAKE her get an abortion. Like someone else said...i thought it was pro-CHOICE not pro-FORCE. Yes, the 11yr old KID will have to deal with a pregnancy. But if shes forced to have an abortion, she will also have to deal with the fact that she killed an innocent baby. (along with dealing with being raped by your moms middle aged boyfriend) I think the girl & her doctor (not the mother) should sit down, talk about it, tell her the risks & all that, & HER make the decision. Pro-choicers are always saying "my body, my choice". This is HER body...why doesnt she get a choice?

As an earlier commenter noted, I don't even let my 11 year old make decisions about how late to stay up or what to eat, so how can you say she should make this decision? She's 11, for Christ's sake! And to the commenter that said she should sit down with her mother and her doctor and discuss this, I'd be surprised if the kid even has a doctor. The mother is clearly negligent (if not abusive), and I suspect she's none too bright, either. This child needs an abortion and counseling immediately.