It was more common than anyone thought, and I side-eye folks who get all nostalgic for Simpler Times. Yes, times of Jim Crow, the horrific boys' schools, the Magdalene laundries, and oh yes, Becky will be gone for a few months to "visit her aunt out of state".

Because they also think that women lie about rape all the time and it doesn't really happen.

That poor woman, I can't imagine being used as a pawn for something you disagree with. Horrible

These fake pregnancy centers make me SO angry. They should have to be clear in their advertising that they don't provide abortions. There is one in my town that masquerades as a Planned Parenthoodish place and I wonder how many women go there without realizing what it really is.

And kinda scary, especially with that GOP guy yesterday claiming that marital rape isn't an actual thing.

In the US, there are a number of mandatory reporting laws for people in a number of different professions when child abuse is suspected. Many medical professionals are now also trained to do deeper investigations and ask more questions when they're faced with adult patients who they think may be abuse victims.

He may be able to lactate, but he can be fired for trying to pump that breast milk at work, according to the Supreme Court. See? The law's not unfair if it's applied to both genders equally.

Man, that's disgusting. They should have killed that fucker. I can't imagine what horror it must be to get raped and then on top of that to have to fucking carry it to term...at 11.

It's crazy how common that was ages ago, and that the family's ~reputation was more important than a child's sanity, health and well-being. Obviously the child molesters were never really prosecuted because nobody thought of pressing charges, like omg imagine the scandal. So screw the rape victims. Everyone received…

I mentioned on another site the charming interchanges that the woman will get to have with her rapist- you know for visitation and/or custody and there were several people who said something to the effect that if she was going to abort the "child" then she should just turn over custody to the "FATHER" anyway. And…

We have one of those in our family! She knew who her real mom was, but she and a bunch of other people didn't know her dad was also her cousin's dad - they're cousins on one side and sisters on the other. So sad, because her mom was messed up for pretty much ever after that - I think she was only like 13 or 14.

Story time! My friend and I once called the Quebec Life Coalition's crisis pregnancy "help"line to see what kind of bullshit they tried to push onto vulnerable women. Our fictional woman said she wanted to abort because her boyfriend was violent, didn't feel safe, etc. The man said "Oh, well being pregnant is such…

They CANNOT STOP SAYING that rape has some advantages. It's weird.

Why do these assholes feel the need to argue a proviso for rape? According to their logic, doesn't a woman's body have a way of "shutting things down" per Todd Akin?

"When he's not representing his district, Kurcaba is a financial consultant — not a doctor, a psychologist, or a person capable of ever getting pregnant. "

My grandma's cousin was 11 years old when her teacher impregnanted her. It's the family's biggest open secret that she's our uncle's real mom. My uncle is my dad's best friend from childhood (he introduced him to mom). My uncle, the baby in question, and my dad have NO idea. Everyone else is like, yup, it is known. He…

That people feel this way is pretty terrifying. Who cares what women want, really? Imagine the beauty of forcing them to keep what they never agreed to!

Seriously is it that hard to just shut the fuck up about rape? Because that's what basically all republican men need to do.

I like how his Twitter photo is inexplicably a grainy black & white head shot that looks like it was taken in 1955. Really speaks to him as a person and where he'd like to take this county.

I suppose if someone raped Kurcaba, the santorum that results could also be said to be beautiful?