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kpete

(72,022 posts)
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 07:05 PM Mar 2012

But excuse me lady, was "It truly caused by a rape", are you sure, positive, 100%?

Chuck Winder, Idaho Lawmaker, Suggests Women Use Rape As Excuse For Abortions

“Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this," Winder said on the Senate floor. "I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that's part of the counseling that goes on.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/chuck-winder-rape-abortions_n_1366994.html

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Arkansas Granny

(31,532 posts)
1. First of all, why should a woman need and "excuse" for an abortion? It is, after all,
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 07:10 PM
Mar 2012

a legal medical procedure and no one should feel that they have to justify her choice.

Second of all, doesn't it just seem like they want to have their noses all up in everybody's sex life?

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
3. i was thinking, when reading, what counselling? if a woman has made the decision
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 07:14 PM
Mar 2012

then that should be it....

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
4. I totally agree, if interrogation is done , grab the guilty one.
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 07:16 PM
Mar 2012

The perpert gets protected in court to prevent their civil rights from being ciliates and the victim gets treated very badly.

Response to chowder66 (Reply #2)

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
7. It Is A Sad Day. And What Is Next
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 07:22 PM
Mar 2012

I cannot believe the twisted logic that I see here. I guess that means that the woman will have to questioned in detail about all the recent relationships she has had. If married or in a relationship how many times she has had a relationship.

Somehow the rapist becomes irrelevant. I feel like I am in the twilight zone now.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
8. Since we are going back to the 50s and before,
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 07:27 PM
Mar 2012

it used to be required that a woman PROVE rape; i.e, she had to show that she fought off, with physical bruises, a rapist. Otherwise, they assumed that she CONSENTED TO IT. Just dressing provactively, was enough to show that she was "asking for it".

I feel like I am living in a time wrap here. Am I really THIS OLD for others to have never heard of this before?

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)
9. This is a man who truly does not understand 'no'
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 07:30 PM
Mar 2012

If he thinks forcible sex in a marriage is 'normal relations' I pity his wife. Her life has undoubtedly been hell.

I will not say what I am thinking I would like to have happen to every one of these brain-dead di*ks because I refuse to put it in print. Suffice to say, it would be slow, excruciating, and endless.

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