Reply #36: Not to mention victims of rape and incest [View All]

[One Eye on Canada]

I ran into a woman I hadn't seen for a while in what I'll call the "rooms of recovery" last week. When I asked her where she had been, she reported she spent the summer fighting a losing battle with crack cocaine, and had been raped four times.

The good news is that she is now living in a halfway house, and is striving to to recover from her addiction and from the illnesses she contacted while "out there." She was given the "morning after" pill to keep her from getting pregnant after each rape, and I shudder to think what her life would be like if she had a pregnancy to deal with as well.

Of course, the "moral values" set may say she brought it all upon herself. But, as a person who is personally familiar with addiction and recovery, I think people who say such things are either revealing ignorance or the fact that they have a lump of coal where their hearts should be.