Natalie Fleet, a Labour MP, is campaigning to change laws that allow rapists to maintain parental rights over children conceived through statutory rape. Fleet, who fell pregnant at 15 due to a relationship with an older man, shares her experience of being blamed for her situation and the societal attitudes surrounding teenage pregnancy. She emphasizes the need for conversations about the father's role and relationships involved. Despite initial doubts about her worthiness to serve in Parliament as a teenage parent, she now feels a responsibility to advocate for change, armed with her trauma-driven insights and proof of her experience.
You've ruined your life, not only for you, but for your unborn daughter.
What was never, ever asked was, where did the father come from?
I can't be an MP - I was a teenage parent.
I have indisputable proof about what happened to me.
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