The U.S. Is Tracking Migrant Girls’ Periods to Stop Them from Getting Abortions

The U.S. Is Tracking Migrant Girls’ Periods to Stop Them from Getting Abortions

So they can’t figure out where children separated from their parents are, but by God, they can keep track of teenage migrant girls’ menstrual cycles.There are 28 pages detailing the periods, pregnancies and reason for the pregnancy (whether by rape or not) of teen girls in custody, some of whom are as young as 12. Beyond that, moving children to a family that government officials prefer is what authoritarian regimes all through history have done. From 1977 to 1983 the military junta in Argentina took the children of dissidents, and, after killing or “disappearing” their parents, placed the orphans with childless families friendly to the regime.

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