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Proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law could allow girls as young as 9 to marry, sparking outrage from rights groups and survivors like “Batta,” who endured abuse after being forced into marriage at 11.

The changes would shift decision-making power to clerics, undermining existing protections for women and children established in 1959.

Supporters claim the amendments promote family values, but critics call them a violation of children’s rights and a step toward legalized child abuse.

Activists and lawmakers are working to block the controversial proposal.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 70 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would imagine that fueling rape and child abuse is the point.

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Republicans are taking notes.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 59 points 3 days ago

They don't need to take any notes. Child marriage is legal and still happening in many US states. And you guessed it, it's Replicans who defend those laws, by invoking "family values".

It's horrible that they plan to change the law to allow that to happen over there, but we here in the US aren't in any position to feel morally superior about it till we finally ban it ourselves.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 71 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have maybe a handful of memories made under 9 years old. Just imagine being married for as far back as you can remember. These poor girls

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago

Oh don't worry, trauma victims will have plenty of memories from that age 🤢🤮

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

Well yeah, it is rape and child abuse.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Others, like fellow Shia lawmaker Alya Nassif, called for the proposals to be voted down like similar amendments were in 2014 and 2017. Calling the proposals “dangerous,” Nassif said the law “threatens society and families.” She added that the members of parliament had been presented with “a collection of ideas written on two sheets of paper,” rather than “legal articles that are needed to be discussed for voting.”

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

claim the amendments support family values

I mean I guess it makes more family, but Jesus Christ

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Morons: They should get the run the country how they want, and if you don't like it LEAVE.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

More proof, to me at least, that there is no god out there.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean really yeah.

Either God doesn't exist. Or God does exist and allows this crap to happen, which is akin to just approving of it. And if that's the case hail Satan.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Was this a thing when Saddam was still in charge?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Were illegal marriages a thing when Saddam was still in charge, or were legislation proposals with any ambiguity about passing a thing when Saddam was still in charge?

Yes. No. Respectively.

Great JAQing off about a dictator who gouged out children's eyes.

For those wondering about the issue of child marriage in Iraq before the modern day who aren't perpetual apologists for whatever fascists they can find to drool over,

“I lost my life the day my marriage began. I was 13, and the man I had to marry was 20 years older than me.” Shaima’s story is one told only within the intimacy of a home. Nestled on the couch of a modest yet tastefully decorated living room, she sips her Turkish coffee, ensuring there are enough grounds left to read her fortune in search of signs of better days. She smokes cigarette after cigarette, taking a long drag before exhaling as if symbolically releasing her life story.

Born in 1977 in a village near Basra in southern Iraq, Shaima was the eldest of nine siblings raised amid the violence of the 1980s Iran-Iraq War. It was a childhood “with just enough money to buy bread each day, nothing more,” she recalled. “My father sold me to the brother of one of his friends. I didn’t want to marry him; he was too old, violent, and always angry. But I couldn’t refuse.” From this forced marriage came five children. “I had my first child at 14. I was so young and exhausted that one day, I fell asleep while breastfeeding my baby girl. She suffocated and died.” The silence that followed the confession is crushing.

https://international.la-croix.com/world/in-iraq-activists-fight-against-potential-return-of-child-marriages