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niyad

(113,510 posts)
Sat Feb 7, 2015, 01:48 PM Feb 2015

West Virginia GOP Bros Invent New Kind Of Rape: The ‘Legal’ Kind

(some of the comments after are brilliant)

West Virginia GOP Bros Invent New Kind Of Rape: The ‘Legal’ Kind





Amirite fellas?

Oh, gee, is it that time of year again already? The time of year when some Republican dude opens his vomit-hole and spews some terrible words about rape? Let’s check our calendar:


Aw, that’s nice. Rape is awful, obvs, but rape babies are soooo the best, so let’s ban abortion in West Virginia:

The West Virginia House of Delegates began moving a bill Thursday to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill is very similar to one that was passed last year, only to be vetoed by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.

The bill is one of 11 introduced so far this legislative session that seek to restrict women’s access to abortion.

Do the Republican menfolk in the West Virginia House of Delegates have any other terrific fresh thoughts on rape? Sure they do, according to Charleston Gazette reporter David Gutman:

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We are well-versed in the various kinds of rape Republican dudes have invented in the tiny clump of cells that are their brains: legitimate rape, honest rape, easy rape, forcible rape, gift-from-God rape, “Is it really rape if it’s your wife?” rape, et cetera and UGH.

However, “legal rape”? Pretty sure that’s a new one. Maybe Del. Matthew Rohrbach is thinking of the term “statutory rape” — which is still illegal, by the way, in case you didn’t know. But given that these insights were offered by Republican men during a hearing to justify making it Not Legal for ladies to have abortions if they are more than one second into puberty, we are not going to give Rohrbach the benefit of the doubt whatsoever, sorry, nope.

Oh, is there even more terrible that came out of this hearing? Why yes, there is, because Republican dudes were talking about rape and abortion and lady health care, so of course.

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Read more at http://wonkette.com/575361/west-virginia-gop-bros-invent-new-kind-of-rape-the-legal-kind#ucHaFiv3tWhkwPyj.99

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West Virginia GOP Bros Invent New Kind Of Rape: The ‘Legal’ Kind (Original Post) niyad Feb 2015 OP
Slow learners... 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #1
even slower are the people who voted for them. niyad Feb 2015 #2
+1 WhiteTara Feb 2015 #4
warped minds to start with. riversedge Feb 2015 #8
The sad thing is . . . Staph Feb 2015 #3
the fact that he is a doctor makes it even worse. niyad Feb 2015 #6
Link added to WV group & tweeted. & rec'd Panich52 Feb 2015 #5
thank you for that. niyad Feb 2015 #7

Staph

(6,252 posts)
3. The sad thing is . . .
Sat Feb 7, 2015, 04:20 PM
Feb 2015

Matthew Rohrbach is an MD, a gastroenterologist. He knows anatomy quite well.

I had a chance to chat with him before the election -- a family member was having a colonoscopy. He sounded like an old school, pro-business, country club Republican. I didn't vote for him (please, I've been at DU for ten years, I'm not stupid), but I didn't expect him to go overboard on the keep-the-women-barefoot-and-pregnant stuff. I'm sadly disappointed. I would guess that the Republican leadership in the West Virginia House of Delegates put their collective feet down and told him to toe the Koch-sponsored, Fox-News-published party line.

Le sigh!


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