Oklahoma’s underage, Joen, was born to a

Oklahoma’s underage, Joen, was born to a 53-year-old Charlie. If Joen does not marry Charlie, Charlie must go to prison, and Charlie demanded that Joen marry him. Whatever dirty deal happened, Joen’s father allowed a man his age to marry his 16-year-old daughter. Joen sacrificed his freedom and puberty for Charlie’s freedom.

In the United States, which has claimed to be the guardian of freedom, democracy, and human rights, underage marriage is legal in a surprisingly 40 states. It is not the only one. After a U.S. federal court ruled the Mississippi bill outlawing abortion as constitutional in 2022, 14 Republican states, including Texas, made abortion completely illegal. Abortion is not allowed not only in cases of rape but also in cases of disability.

Thus, although there are only 2,000 abortion hospitals in the United States, there are more than 4,000 anti-abortion counseling centers that encourage childbirth under the guise of an abortion hospital. Like the Humboldt Children’s Welfare Association in Korea, they are trying to collect $20,000 in adoption fees from their adoptive parents.

The barbaric policy of making women a child-bearing machine is being driven by evangelical churches with great influence, and far-right forces allied with them are also moving to deprive women of their right to vote altogether. It is a strategy to take power by gathering votes from angry men facing castration fears.

Thanks to this, Amanda in Texas has been in prison for 11 years. When Amanda was 20, her mother-in-law, who hates her, kicked her out of the house, so the baby was crushed to death by her father the night Amanda squatted on a bench. The father who laid the baby to death was released after two years, but Amanda, innocent, has to serve 20 years in prison for being a “mama of failure to keep the baby.”

It seems that it is time for women and men from all over the world to unite to help poor women in 米, the country at the forefront of rolling back the rights of women and minorities.