Abortion is legal in America -- even in Alabama. The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals waived the parental consent required for a minor to obtain an abortion, due to the 12-year-old's rape by an adult family member.

In further confirmation -- not only of Republicans' authoritarian intentions for the state to assume full control of women's bodies, but of their callous disregard for the health and well-being of a 12-year-old girl -- district attorney Win Johnson was joined by Lorie Mullins, Executive Director of the COPE Pregnancy Center in Montgomery -- in denouncing the girl and not her rapist.

Johnson said "it's stunning that courts would issue an opinion saying that a 12-year-old "was mature enough -- and I'm going to put this in its starkest terms -- to decide to murder her own child in her womb." He further spoke in words that sound amazingly like the incoherent statements of America's President Donald Trump, who has also unleashed a full-force attack on women's health in America:

"Now, nobody has said that to her, I bet you, in any of her counseling. Nobody has explained that to her in its starkest, rawest form, like that. But what if it was, what if she really thought through it, even as a 12-year-old and said, "Gosh, I don't want that on my conscience."

Mullins went even further, calling the girl a 'perpetrator' for exercising her legal right to an abortion. Given the circumstances of this young girl's life, one might expect some female empathy from Mullins, but there was none.

“She has been victimized her entire life,” Mullins said. “And now she’s being put in the position of being the perpetrator of this newest violence, because that’s what’s going to happen.
Whether she grasps it now, there’s a point in her life where she is going to understand what she has done and how it is going to impact. The depression, the substance abuse that happens so often, the problems with future relationships.

The District Attorney Johnson called for judges to stand for God, rather than the Constitution. via Alabama Political Reporter