Child brides are the most recent victims of the leftist pursuit of abortion and transgenderism, and of leftist attack on the nuclear family.

From The Washington Stand. If you think child brides are the stuff of faraway cultures, think again. In 2017, child marriage was legal in all 50 U.S. states. Only recently have survivors started chipping away at the practice, using their nightmarish stories to put a stop to the abuse of (mostly) young girls. California was next in line to outlaw the horror, until a shocking number of national groups swooped in to keep the under-18 unions legal. Who are they and how can they justify their crusade? Answer: social extremists with one goal — protecting teenage abortion and transgenderism.

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She was still playing with Barbies when a man almost twice her age put a ring on her finger and called himself her “fiancé.” The rapes would happen “two and three times a week,” and Carol never told anyone. She was 12. Two years later, her 20-year-old abuser drove her to the doctor, suspecting she was pregnant. “Tell them you begged for sex,” he coached her. “Tell them I fought you off, tell them you pursued me! Tell them anything or I’m going to jail!”

“At the doctor, I sat silent,” Carol remembers. … My ‘fiancé’ said, ‘You better tell them you want to marry me, or the state will take you away to a shelter, and you may not survive.’ Upon returning home, I told my mom I wanted to get married.”

The next day, they went to the courthouse and got married. “No one questioned the 14-year-old crying profusely.” Carol’s new husband ordered her to quit school, sparking a five-year cycle of sexual abuse where she lived in a maggot-infested house without electricity and two babies. …

Horror stories like Carol’s are astonishingly common. More than 300,000 children under age 18 were legally married in the U.S. between 2000-2018. Delaware and New Jersey were the first to take on the crisis — a crisis most Americans had no idea existed. After nine states did away with marriages for minors, pressure started ramping up in other areas of the country to end the predatory practice this year, including blue states like California.

To everyone’s shock, the Left’s big guns started coming out of the woodwork, vehemently opposing the bills that ended child marriage (which is considered a human rights violation by even the liberal United Nations). …

While survivors in wedding dresses and chains marched through Sacramento to protest the current laws, Planned Parenthood, Children’s Law Center, and the ACLU are fighting to keep young girls shackled. According to Newsweek, the groups are worried that putting an age limit on marriage would somehow spillover to ban abortions or gender transitions.

Jonathan Keller, president of California Family Council, wishes it was a joke. It isn’t. On “Washington Watch” Friday, he called it absolutely “tragic” to see how extreme the Left has become. The idea that groups like Planned Parenthood would lobby to keep girls locked in legal relationships with (in many cases) sadistic abusers, should be a bridge too far for even them. But then, that’s the business model: early sex, more abortions. Whether or not it’s consensual matters little to the industry’s profit sharks. …

“[I]t exposes, I think, how the Left — instead of trying to protect children — [is] really doing everything they can to all but emancipate them from their parents in everything … but name,” Keller warned. …

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(Excerpt from The Washington Stand. Photo Credit: Canva)