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sakabatou
(42,083 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Sugarmaggie
(109 posts)Select specific men to be castrated. You want rights over a womans body then we get equal rights. Solves a ton of unwanted pregnancies. Sorry. White men repugs are using this as a political tool. Disgusting.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Fuck these ignorant, misogynistic assholes and the penis pump they rode in on. Nobody with such scant knowledge of the female body and reproductive system has ANY business making ANY laws governing it.
thucythucy
(7,986 posts)and I've been hearing it for years.
Pisses me off every time.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)Estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women
Am J Obstet Gynecol
1996 Aug
M M Holmes, H S Resnick, D G Kilpatrick, C L Best
... Study design: A national probability sample of 4008 adult American women took part in a 3-year longitudinal survey that assessed the prevalence and incidence of rape and related physical and mental health outcomes.
Results: The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year. Among 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy, the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted from assault by a known, often related perpetrator. Only 11.7% of these victims received immediate medical attention after the assault, and 47.1% received no medical attention related to the rape. A total 32.4% of these victims did not discover they were pregnant until they had already entered the second trimester; 32.2% opted to keep the infant whereas 50% underwent abortion and 5.9% placed the infant for adoption; an additional 11.8% had spontaneous abortion ...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8765248/
marble falls
(56,359 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)Yes, someone can get pregnant! Not all rape is violent! Rape is NOT equivalent to "gay sex"! Gay men can be raped! Saying "you can't rape the willing" shows what a fucking shitstain of a human you really are! Sex workers can be raped! Outside of roleplay, no one "ASKS" to be raped! Women can rape men! It isn't funny to suggest rape as a punishment!
Rape is a violation against a person!
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)That and the "true rape" has to be violent.
I guess anything else is just regular sex.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)They haven't been right yet.