The Assault on Womens Sexual and Reproductive Rights

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AN OPEN LETTER TO REP. AKIN FROM A WOMAN WHO GOT PREGNANT FROM RAPE

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http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=LegitimateRape

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as some articles and this tweet point out:

Another disturbing facet of the #legitimaterape argument is the implied converse; if you DO get pregnant, you must've actually wanted it.

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Virginia VS Vaginas


http://vimeo.com/47825539

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Chris Matthews is doing a piece on Akin right now on MSNBC.

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I just keep getting more enraged as the day moves on...

Anyway, NARAL has a lot of good Take Action strategies on their home page if you feel inclined to stop this war on women's bodies.

http://www.naral.org/

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The former Arkansas governor and onetime GOP presidential contender suggested a couple of cases in which he suggested that rapes, though “horrible tragedies,” had produced admirable human beings.

“Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of a forcible rape,” Huckabee said of the late American gospel singer. One-time presidential candidate Huckabee added: “I used to work for James Robison back in the 1970s, he leads a large Christian organization. He, himself, was the result of a forcible rape. And so I know it happens, and yet even from those horrible, horrible tragedies of rape, which are inexcusable and indefensible, life has come and sometimes, you know, those people are able to do extraordinary things.”

Huckabee to Akin: 'Horrible' rapes created some extraordinary people

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Originally Posted by Soon

The former Arkansas governor and onetime GOP presidential contender suggested a couple of cases in which he suggested that rapes, though “horrible tragedies,” had produced admirable human beings.

“Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of a forcible rape,” Huckabee said of the late American gospel singer. One-time presidential candidate Huckabee added: “I used to work for James Robison back in the 1970s, he leads a large Christian organization. He, himself, was the result of a forcible rape. And so I know it happens, and yet even from those horrible, horrible tragedies of rape, which are inexcusable and indefensible, life has come and sometimes, you know, those people are able to do extraordinary things.”

Huckabee to Akin: 'Horrible' rapes created some extraordinary people

Rape is rape.

Seems to me, masculine persons have this need to add an adjective to rape and other violence against women to explain or justify their behavior and the consequences of it. It is deeply rooted in the patriarchy, and the sexism and misogyny it breeds.

Anyone remember the Clayton Williams campaign gem...."Bad weather is like rape. If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it".

Or, the controversy stemming from a rape back in 1993 when the victim convinced the rapist to use a condom? "The case had attracted widespread publicity when the first grand jury investigating the assault refused to indict Mr. Valdez because some jurors felt the use of condoms provided by the victim may have suggested her complicity in the encounter. The defendant maintained that use of condoms during the Sept. 16 sexual assault implied the woman's consent." http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/15/us...-40-years.html

Rape is rape.