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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Mexico Gov. Requires Women Seeking Childcare Assistance To Prove They Were ‘Forcibly Raped’
After Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) asserted his belief that legitimate rape doesnt often lead to pregnancy, Republican lawmakers were quick to attempt to configure his radical stance on womens health as an outlier in their party. However, increasing numbers of GOP politicians language about the nature of sexual assault actually echoes Akins including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R), whose states policies use language that effectively narrows the definition of rape.
Not only did Martinez refer to forcible rape in an announcement instating April as New Mexicos Sexual Assault Awareness Month as if some kinds of sexual assault need to be qualified as more or less legitimate than others but, as RH Reality Check reports, the term also appears in the states proposed changes to its official applications for childcare assistance. If the proposed changes take effect, women in New Mexico will be required to prove that their sexual assault qualified as forcible rape if they are seeking childcare assistance for a child that resulted from rape:
It would force women who have left violent domestic partnerships, who were date-raped, who were impregnated as a result of incest, or through other non-forcible but nonetheless equally violent and denigrating means of sexual violation to first re-engage with their abusers to seek child support, putting control of their lives back into the hands of someone by whom they were violated in the most profound sense of the term.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/09/20/881971/new-mexico-gov-forcible-rape/
FirstLight
(13,364 posts)I wish we could have a Defense of Women and Children ACT that would pass as a amendment and stop this bullshit of picking on those who have already been victimized...
atreides1
(16,093 posts)A self loathing group of gender traitors...who seem to want to put women down, even more then Joe Walsh!
But, I guess collaborators can be found anyplace... hopefully this will be her last term as governor, or maybe she'll get hit by a meteor...
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)I have yet to meet a calm republican. Their world view ultimately boils down to "I will live only if you die".
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)Hell hath no fury like a whole bunch of women fed up with idiocy. That shit-head Rmoney boo boo is making you all look like asses who have no idea on how to run things.
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)Did you have wine that evening?
Were you on vacation?
Was it at a party?
1) Company Christmas party or
2) A drunken BBQ or
3) Boca Raton
Was it frozen or fresh sperm?
How many positions did you use?
Did your partner keep his socks on or take them off?
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)from rapists, should not the state collect it? Letting rapists out of an obligation that non-rapist fathers have seems unfair.