Brown Claims She Only Meant to Punish Those Who Help Rape Victims

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43. I just don't understand.

This is a female legislator, right? If this came from a male, I can certainly see where he would get his false ideas. Rape is rape, no matter the gender. For women, when draped by a "man", there is this added thing called pregnancy. It is up to the woman as to what she wants to do with a pregnancy, full stop.

Yet she appears to me to have the empathy part of her brain unwired. With rape and pregnancy both together there is a host of mental health (not bad, just they exist) issues going on that need to be worked through. Now this legislator would like to throw a whole lot of obstacles in the way?

I know this may come off absolutely callous - and really I do not wish this on anyone - but maybe she needs to go through the experience of a horrific rape, find out she is pregnant and then figure out what to do. To emphasise this: I don't wish this on anyone - not even this legislator. Has she really thought this through?

I know, I'm just a guy reading this and thinking WTF... but any woman that much in distress about an unwanted pregnancy of any kind needs to get all of the health care she needs - even if it involves the termination of the pregnancy. Left untreated, the medical situation can get a whole lot worse. To legislate barriers to people to get the best healthcare a person needs - when medical professionals and the patient decides it is the right course of treatment - is wrong. In this case, the legislator is proposing jail time to medical professionals for assisting a patient with a medical procedure. It's wrong and probably unconstitutional. If it isn't well it bloody well should be.

In any case I hope her proposed legislation dies in committee, if ever introduced, and soundly voted down.