The New Hampshire GOP lawmaker also said that he would not "apologize to the haters" for describing 16-year-old girls as "ripe."

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.

  • Wogi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    He also doesn’t want books that have gay characters in public or school libraries. Or kids to know sex exists.

    Ok for them to be married. But not to have the vocabulary to identify when they’re being abused.