Twenty years of serving time for a crime I didn’t commit.

[kpete]

I got pregnant from rape
Todd Akin doesn't know the first thing about what it's like to live with sexual assault. At 19, I found out
BY RENEE DEVESTY

I was mentally, emotionally and spiritually broken, and the thought of what had resulted from this vile act took my self-hatred into another dimension. I wanted no memory of that night, would do anything possible to erase it in the hope that it would somehow ease the sick, disgusting feeling I got every time I looked in the mirror. I realized that in order to maintain what little sanity I had left, I had to terminate the pregnancy.

Six months after the rape, I dropped out of college and developed an eating disorder. I collapsed into alcohol abuse and had abusive relationships. It took me 12 years of trying to kill myself before I could actually verbalize to a trusted counselor what happened to me. I spent the next eight years trying to reverse the damage that was done.

Twenty years of serving time for a crime I didn’t commit.

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/22/i_got_pregnant_from_rape/

[Hydra]

1. A powerful and disgusting story

But an important peek into the world the GOP and others want to build- a world where empowerment for women is impossible, and the rapists get to have their cake and eat it too.

No protection, no prosecution, no help, no way out...and they have to pass on the genes of the rapist, to boot.

Nice world they're building...