Do you know why these repuke teabaggers want the rape exception gone?

[cynatnite]

They think women are lying about being raped. That's what makes this so repugnant.

It's also why I despise them.

[JoePhilly]

1. They also think that the only real rape is when a stranger jumps out of an alley.

Date Rape is the woman's fault. She was asking for it.

And of course a Husband can't rape his wife because she consented to have sex with him on demand the day they got married.

[loyalsister]

2. I think you're right

It was the same thing with the health of the woman exception. And their position turned into to "save the life" of the woman.

[DURHAM D]

3. It is simply about control of women.

After they have fully destroyed the ability to have an abortion they will go after Griswold.

[hifiguy]

5. Count on it.

If they reverse Roe, Griswold is a gone goose. That's been the long game now for thirty years. It really is frightening.

[DURHAM D]

6. They also want

to take down what is left of Affirmative Action, The Equal Pay Act, Title IX, The Fair Credit Act, and women serving in the military just for starters and the real prize will be the 19th Amendment.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. +1,000 !

[hifiguy]

8. Here we come, 1870.

And if they get their way economically, back to the age of feudalism.

[pnwmom]

4. Simple. They consider any abortion to be murder,

and murder is worse than rape. The only possible exception for some (but not all of them) is the life of the mother, because then an abortion might be viewed as self-defense.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Their mouth-breathing base may truly believe this,

but IMO, the professional pols hold no such genuine beliefs.

Repuke pols simply exploit their base's frenzied feelings for their own self-serving, corrupt purposes.

[pnwmom]

10. I agree. It's all marketing. n/t

[Aerows]

17. It might be "marketing" for you

But as a woman, it's not "marketing". It is life and death, dignity, sanity and well-being.

A rape that results in pregnancy isn't just taking all of my choices away, it is taking the choices away of those in my life, too.

[Aerows]

11. When abortion goes

birth control is next. Count on it. This has nothing to do with abortion, and everything to do with getting women "back under control".

[hifiguy]

12. +1

Rolling back the entirety of the 20th century.

[meow2u3]

13. Watch for the Northeastern states to secede if this happens

Peaceful secession, that is. Northeasterners are not going to take having their rights stripped lying down.

[Aerows]

15. I'm in the Deep South

And I won't take it lying down, either. If they think all of us down here will, they are out of their minds. That said, I'll leave the South in a heartbeat if I have to, because these are things that deeply affect the lives of women. I'm a woman. I won't live in a place that says I am forced to carry a child if I am raped.

[renie408]

14. Bingo. They want to go all the way back to, "Honey, I'm home!"

and the little woman scurrying forward with the gin and tonic.

That was EXACTLY my mother and I will be goddamned if it will be my daughter.

[Aerows]

16. That's exactly what they want

And I'll not take it, lying down or otherwise.