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Rape is a horrifying crime that traumatizes over 60,000 women each year in America. It is estimated that 5% or more of these women become pregnant by their rapist. One can only imagine what a woman is going through when she learns that she is now carrying a totally unwanted pregnancy stemming from a traumatic event. Most women exercise their right to choose and get an abortion because they do not wish to go through nine months of additional torture to reward their rapist with a child that he may have custody rights to in an astounding 31 states. That means rapists can continue to stalk, harass, and torture their victims for many years after the initial rape occurred. That is one of many reasons why it is important that rape victims have the choice to end such a pregnancy.
But apparently the Tea Party sees things much differently, and outrageously so. Scottie Nell Hughes is the Director of the Tea Party News Network. And as an extreme conservative, she shares the same twisted views of anti-abortion fanatics. During a July 11th appearance on Viewpoint with John Fugelsang on Current TV, Hughes said that rape victims who end resulting pregnancies should be punished in the same manner as their rapists. In other words, prison. AND, they should serve the same amount of prison time.
HUGHES: Across the board.
FUGELSANG: All three of them?
HUGHES: Go for it!
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/17/tea-party-raped-women-no-abortion-or-jail-time/
PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)Is that these comments weren't just from a Tea Partier, but a FEMALE Tea Partier!
I'm a male who will be going to college for pre-law in the fall, and the thought of rape victims going to jail along with their rapist because they terminated their pregnancy is horrifying.
Dwayne Hicks
(637 posts)The tea party really is just trash. Most anti-American "party" I've ever seen.
Mojo Electro
(362 posts)There can't be any "middle ground" with teabaggers. Complete and utter defeat is the only real solution.
rebecca_herman
(617 posts)Now that I am pregnant for the first time with a very very wanted pregnancy I think it's made me more pro-choice, even though I got the warm fuzzy feelings seeing an ultrasound with very good progress. The only thing that makes the awful physical/emotional symptoms tolerable is that knowing that at the end, I will have a baby I want very much. With as much certainty as I can say for someone that has been fortunate enough to not be raped, I'm pretty sure a rape pregnancy with these side effects would make me suicidal... so much for the woman's rights to life.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That's pretty much the anti-choice movement in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.