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.

  • limelight79English
    26·
    6 months ago

    I think we’re overlooking the 173 other people that voted against this bill, too.

    I mean, yeah, this guy is exceptionally bad, but a lot of other people also voted against it…

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      121·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, as much as the state tends to vote blue in presidential elections, the NH GOP is one of the worst in the whole country. We’re talking “mask off racist in the comments of every political article praising Rush Limbaugh turns out to be an 8th term state Congressman and vice chair of a committee” bad.

      That’s not even a hypothetical.