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.
I used to think minimum age requirements for marriage were unnecessary: who would do that? I only read about it in fundamentalist communities that were inherently repressive, so it seemed like just part of the bigger issue.
I still wonder how you can be bound by a co Tracy you’re too young to legally agree to, and where are the parents and authorities on this