Another One Bites the Dust: Inaccurate Rape Beliefs Take Another Republican Down

[ismnotwasm]

I pointed out when Greig first stumbled over her wildly inaccurate rape comments in early March of this year that she also admitted that she did not know the actual numbers. This didn’t stop her belief:

Ronald Reagan called the California Republican Assembly “the conscience of the Republican Party”. The President of that conscience, Celeste Greig, told Mercury News that the percentage of pregnancies by rape is small, “Granted, the percentage of pregnancies due to rape is small because it’s an act of violence, because the body is traumatized. I don’t know what percentage of pregnancies are due to the violence of rape.”
Studies have shown time and time again that a the science behind pregnancy does not discriminate when it sees a rapist coming, nor does the “violence” of rape shut down the female body. Women get pregnant from rape. In some states, the rapist is granted parental rights over the child resulting from their criminal act.

The California Republican Assembly doesn’t believe in federal taxes, believes in “traditional families”, the “preborn” and national defense. Apparently they don’t believe in science, medicine, facts or numbers either. They don’t care about women being raped, obviously. But they do believe in having power. And that is what led to a narrow outing of the rape pregnancy denier who was foolish enough to say on the record what the majority of conservatives believe in secret.

http://www.politicususa.com/bites-dust-inaccurate-rape-beliefs-republican.html

[d_r]

1. I just started wondering

I thought "why did they think that ancient armies always raped the women after conquering?" and I started to wonder, is this idea that "you don't get pregnant from rape" some sort of folk wisdom that has developed among conservatives? Like a belief that they were brought up with? Maybe so that if "promiscuous" young girls got pregnant they couldn't "claim" it was rape? Like a folk belief in those conservative families? I wonder this because it keeps coming up but I don't remember ever hearing anything like it before the last few months - I thought it was astounding that anybody would say it when I first heard it.

[ismnotwasm]

2. In war raped women were defiled, their emotional, spiritual and monetary value was less

And spoils of war. Rape as a weapon of war has been used for millennia, what people forget is that women were, quite literally property. What that has to do with Republican anti-science I couldn't guess, I mean this is just one sample from the bible;


31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. (31:14) "Moses was wroth with the officers"
(31:15) "And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?"

(31:17) "Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him."

(31:18) "But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."

31:15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Now this is probably a good way to kill off an entire people, except for women-- who had no right and were slaves at this point.

[egold2604]

3. Rape after a battle doesn't cause pregnancy because the victim is usually killed afterwards

[ismnotwasm]

4. Good point

Thinking about the horror of Rwanda.

[redqueen]

6. "Usually" means not always, so obviously rape after battle DOES sometimes cause pregnancy.

*sigh*

[Squinch]

5. Sounds about right that this ignorant group is the conscience of the Republican Party.