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Oh I hope so and I would pray

Richard Day — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:32:35 +0000

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Oh I hope so and I would pray so if I were a believer.

I am so sickened by the evidence that cannot be disputed!

I know I have read similar stats that are included in the blog and in my comments; but my God!

MSNBC is important to me; it has given me a voice since Keith O 8 years ago.

But damn; we need more publication of this issue and as you already know there are many many issues.

But how many Americans really believe that the victim of a rape deserves it or that the victim of a rape asked for it or that a victim of a rape should be forced to bear the son or daughter of Satan or that women should be held in slavery or that ....

THIS IS NOT RIGHT!

Thanks for this post. When

Aunt Sam — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:14:13 +0000

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Thanks for this post. When the GOP let this bill 'die' again, I was furious - at them and at all the women who just shrug and do nothing. The government we deserve, hey ladies!?!

Thankfully, this bill will be reintroduced according to reports very soon by some female house members who are appropriately outraged.

Well Mike's got it right. And

Richard Day — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:02:39 +0000

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Well Mike's got it right.

And from the squib concerning the slave trade world wide and nation wide and from the research squib in one of my replies noting hundreds of thousands of rapes committed in this country; I don't think we are doing much by way of supporting half of our population!

As Michael Moore notes: 4.

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:53:26 +0000

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As Michael Moore notes:

4. Who amongst you big enthusiastic "supporters of the troops" can tell me the approximate number of service women who have been raped while in the military? Answer: 19,000 (mostly) female troops are estimated to be raped or sexually assaulted every year by fellow American troops. What have you or I done to bring these criminals to justice? What's that, you say -- out of sight, out of mind? These women have suffered, and I've done nothing. So don't ever let me get away with telling you I "support the troops" because, sadly, I don't. And neither do you.

I think some of these

Richard Day — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:55:03 +0000

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I think some of these religious zealots are confronted with this issue concerning a benevolent God and then lapse into this habit of blaming the victim.

Just quickly:

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.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8765248

32,000 pregnancies related to rape in this country every damn year!

You're right; the origin of

Aaron Carine — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:38:14 +0000

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You're right; the origin of the fetus has nothing to do with the old problem of whether or not it is a human being. Whether God intends for rape-induced pregnancy to happen is something He hasn't told me, but it wouldn't seem to fit with the notion that God is benevolent.

I hit your link, read the

Richard Day — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:43:29 +0000

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I hit your link, read the article and got sick to my stomach.

http://jezebel.com/5972527/sh

ocean-kat — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:50:55 +0000

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http://jezebel.com/5972527/she-is-so-raped-right-now-former-student-joke...