I don’t get why a such law took so long, but late is better than never.

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    Rep. Hardy Billington, R-Poplar Bluff, was among the few who spoke against the bill, arguing that barring pregnant teenagers from getting married would increase abortion rates.

    “We all claim to be pro-life here in the body,” Billington said. “Now we’re going to vote on this bill where babies are going to die.”

    Disgusting. What a pitiful excuse to enable the trafficking of children. I’m ashamed to live here. There’s no fucking guarantee that it would even increase abortion rate, this guy is a closeted pedophile looking out for his ilk.

    Apparently he’s been spouting this bullshit for at least the past year. Not to mention he’s also a homophobe.

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      Sounds like an old guy from the 50s, who still clings to 50s social mores and stigmas, unaware that being a single mother isn’t the massive taboo he remembers it being.

      Checks Hardy Billington’s Wikipedia page

      Born 1952 or 1953 (age 71–72)

      Aaaaaand there we have it. Not sure why his exact birthdate isn’t known. In fact the only notable thing on that page is about him expressing opposition to another child marriage bill that was proposed last year. Imagine having “strongly endorses child marriage” as the one and only legacy from your 70+ years of life. Gross.

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        It’s okay because there’s an R next to his name. It wouldn’t shock me if people were fully aware of his views. The abortion argument works for women here and the men here were sold at “child marriage.”

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        That’s a good take. The generational difference is real, that good old shotgun wedding from the past.

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        Most likely he has just never revealed his birthday to the public to Wikipedia is just guessing on the year.

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      In California, for instance, the general marriage age is 18, but children may be married with parental consent and judicial approval with no minimum age limit.[53

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    Old men in Missouri just want to trade their gently (ab)used old wives in for a new model.

    What’s the big deal ? Women are property right? Just there to have babies and make sandwiches, right?

    Fuck Nazis. Fuck Christianity. Some creepy bible rapist comes for my kids they better be absolutely ready to “meet Jesus”

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      Most US states allow it with parental consent.

      In theory it’s a holdover from times when age based consent was crazy liberal ideology, which for most of the red states means like 1990.

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      Watch the Republicans set their hair on fire in response while introducing legislation to allow more child workers as well.

      The party of family values.

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        Hey I waited to my 30’s when I had my shit together. Its no use getting married only to pull each other down during the painful growth period of one’s life.

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    The next time someone makes fun of shithole countries remind them that hundreds of 12yo are married in the US every year. And I guess their little bodies are ready for motherhood because many of them produce a baby in 4 or 6 mo after the wedding.

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      The usual shit that islamophobes would say is that ‘at least they aren’t 9’ even if many Islamic countries ban that shit and large age gaps in marriage (Egypt is one example) and many children marriages that do happen are between children. As in, an 11 year old girl is betrothed to a 14 year old boy (still not cool though). They also ignore that in many cases a man who does marry a little kid is often socially ostracized and treated like shit for doing that.

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        Western Chauvinism and Islamophobia have red-pilled so many promising minds into the intellectual sewer of bigotry.

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      many of them produce a baby in 4 or 6 mo after the wedding

      Wow, they are just precocious in every way, aren’t they?