1/ #DemVoice1- Choosing when and whom to marry is one of life’s most important decisions. Marriage is the one thing what is not fit for children, it’s a child abuse! RED states new laws on child marriage doesn’t even restrict or have an age limit that how old the bride can be.
2/However, this is an ongoing problem across the country! The ban on abortion without an exemption of rape & incest, will alarmingly increase that problem. Without the option of aborting the pregnancy the child will have only two options, either married with her rapist and
3/gave birth to the rapist’s child or gave birth to the child alone. Forcing a child into marriage is a violation of the rights of girls. Girls who are married as children are more likely to be out of school, suffer domestic violence, contract HIV/AIDS and die due to
4/complications during pregnancy and childbirth. However, an alarming number of states allowed children as young as 10 and 12 years old to marry, and in nearly 90 percent of the cases,young girls married adult men.The youngest children to marry were 10-year old girls in Tennessee
5/who were married to men ages 24, 25 and 31. A 74-year-old man in Alabama holds the record as being one of the oldest to marry a child, and his bride was just 14 years old. Children as young as 10 were granted marriage licenses in Alaska, Louisiana, South Carolina,and Tennessee.
6/Thirteen-year-olds were given the green light to marry in Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington. Oklahoma has the nation's fourth-highest teen birthrate and
7/that’s likely to increase now. Between 2000 and 2018, almost 300,000 children were married in the U.S. alone, with approx. 60,000 of those marriages occurring at a spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime. 
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