Brazilian minister linked child pregnancy to exposure in TikTok

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian Minister of Women, Family, and Human Rights, evangelist pastor Damares Alves, affirmed that child and adolescent pregnancy is “closely linked” to the improper use of the social video network TikTok, where, according to her vision, girls are exposed to “sell their bodies”.

“Let not dads and moms come now to complain to the Ministry of Health asking to solve the pregnancy of their daughters after they went to TikTok to sell their bodies. One thing is closely linked to the other,” said Alves on Tuesday night when inaugurating the National Week of Prevention in Adolescence.

Alves is one of the most repudiated figures of Jair Bolsonaro’s government because, in 2020, she tried to stop the performance of an abortion of a 10-year-old girl raped by her uncle after the Justice authorized to interrupt the gestation.

The minister, one of Bolsonaro’s favorites, said that child and adolescent pregnancy should continue if it occurs: “If she gets pregnant, there is life”, she assured.

The minister is also pushing for the inclusion in sex education programs for children and adolescents of the “I Decided to Wait” program, which recommends having sex only after heterosexual marriage.

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