"It is estimated that some 32,000 American rape victims are made pregnant by their rapists every year in the US. Science has actually found that raped women are more likely to get pregnant."
An 18-year-old Bosnian Muslim rape victim. (photo: Nina Berman/Sipa Press)
Dear Rep. King: Meet a Pregnant Rape Victim
22 August 12
ollowing in Rep. Todd Akin's footsteps, evangelical extremist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said today of pregnancy from rape, "Well I just haven't heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way, and I'd be open to discussion about that subject matter." It is estimated that some 32,000 American rape victims are made pregnant by their rapists every year in the US.
Science has actually found that raped women are more likely to get pregnant.
Rep. King should get out more. He'd encounter the problem fairly easily in war zones, where this Bosnian woman was raped as an act of war and impregnated by a militiaman trying to wipe out her people:
There have been thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands like her in the world’s killing fields in the past 30 years. Paul Ryan, Todd Akin and Steve King deny their existence because they don’t want to deal with the human and moral dilemma they pose, and want to deny these women the right to abortion - i.e. they want to take the side of the rapists who invaded their bodies and altered them. The Ryan-Akin axis has a message for such women: get over it.
Even Muslim televangelist Yusuf Qaradawi is willing to make an exception for these women, despite his general opposition to abortion. But our fundamentalists are more absolutist than their fundamentalists.
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Yeah, but nobody would have them! Maybe we could sneak them into the middle of a deep, dark jungle somewhere!
Thats exactly what I was thinking...do they want to minimize the victim so they can get away with something like this legally? Nothing the repugs do would surprise me. Im sure the right wingers will be posting soon, trying to justify this stupidity, Im sure they are anxiously awaiting their Fox news talking points.
Who's wondering? They are most definitely hiding a lot of something -- that's how they got elected in the first place.
THANKS for calling them, what they are SKUNKS. They stink to high heaven. We should all be able to smell them a mile away. Great name for them.
Thank you: R(oberts) A(lito) T(homas) S(calia) for insuring our democracy can be and is BOUGHT by those who want to rule the world for their own power/$$
Now, all of us who can vote - vote straight DEM in 2012. Drag all who will vote sensibly out to vote too - just don't stay at home as "dems did" in 2010 or bye bye American democracy
republicans AREN'T thinking. THAT demands a brain. They blindly follow their MISLEADERS.
Perhaps what is even worse then their duplicity is that the polls indicate that almost a majority of Americans agree with these people! How low America has sunk!
Actually, Eagle, Mr. Cole has made the perfectly reasonable inference that not immediaately condemning crazy ideas like Akin's implies a degree of agreement.
I'm quite sure that you, for instance, would concur tyhat liberrals who in the 1960s failed to immediately condemn the bombing of draft boards by left-wing radicals suggested a measure of approval. This is the same--and belated condemnations, AFTER the initial ssilence began l;ooking politically costly, aren't really convincing.
It's quite apparent that your arguments/criti cisms, etc. are all noise with really no content. And thus the latest tantrum at Juan Cole's article. How about Todd Akins's comment? You may have me beleiving that you beleive it's correct. It's been quoted repeatedly so you can't say he didn't that. So, do you beleive in "legitimate rape?" How about a woman's body "magically" stopping a pregnancy because of rape? So,do you agree that Akin is correct in implying that rape is "lawful assault." And that God told him that there's such a thing as "Immaculate Rejection"? I have to ask. It's utterly necessary. Given Akin's deformed comments, now I'm almost beleiving that a major qualification to hold political office in the U.S. is stupidity. Once again, Right is wrong, and amazingly so this time.
You have no defense for these guys in your party, so you attack the author of this article, typical right wing dodging. Im sure Fox news will give you your talking points soon, I cant wait to hear what they are LOL!
I'm sick of MEN telling women what they can do with their bodies while approving of them being raped.
If the American women vote for the Romney/Ryan ticket don't ever want an abortion . . . For any reason!
If you have a mind and are educated. . . Watch out, they are geared to take you down, one way or another.
I am afraid that you misunderstood the article. The young MUSLIM woman was raped, not by a Muslim, but a Serb. The Serbians wanted to eradicate the Bosnian Muslims.
Unfortunately an awful lot of voters are morons, and their representatives DO represent their views, Which is a killer for the sane among us.
No kool-aid is involved, a lack of brains is the problem. H E L P
I am not sure what has happened in America that congenital idiots like these boys get elected to office.
"If women don't get pregnant from rape and incest, there is no need for an exception in the abortion laws."
WTF does that even MEAN?! These people are morons!
CORRECT
for human stupidity
where once they led
now they're dead
its the water, perhaps, you see
what happened in the u.s.a.
for all the world to see
a descent into massive
passive,complete stupidity
Successful societies are those which incorporate both conservative and liberal tendencies. Refer to Robert Pirsig's excellent book "Lila" for a full discussion of this issue.
The insane maniacs are now running "the house"
And I pray fervently that Americas women will wake up and throw the idiots out come November
If these so-called Christian, right wing, evangelical, tea partyers are so against a chosen abortion, they should be able to OK a venue like this.
Oh and they, particularly, should have an added income tax percentage to their tax payments and those of us who consider it a right to choose an abortion should not have to pay that percentage.
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