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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15199291
Republican defends child marriage: I’m “pro-choice”
A New Hampshire Republican lawmaker who has been under fire for defending child marriage has lashed out at his “haters” while insisting that his stance is “pro-choice.”
State Representative Jess Edwards inspired outrage last week after describing underage teenage girls as “ripe” and “fertile” while arguing against a bill to raise the age of marriage in the Granite State from 16 to 18. The bill passed by a vote of 192-174 despite objections from Edwards and others.
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Edwards described critics of his underage marriage stance as “an army of control freaks that want to entice a pregnant woman into an abortion rather than allow a marriage” in a Facebook post on Monday.
People who think child labour and child marriage are acceptable in a civil society need to be barred from government.
If we barred people from government positions for shitty/creepy/weird behaviour, republicans wouldn’t have anyone to vote for.
I believe an LLM would be a better representative than a Republican.