Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi

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Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi
theguardian.com

The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure

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Wouldn't they like to marry the girl to her rapist, because sex outside of marriage is a sin or something?

Not in a monogamous society. Rapists don't want to get tied down to only a single child wife. Also, there's no dowry in our society for the rapist to take the burden of raising the girl off the parents' hands.