There are GOP Women who are doing some serious soul-searching on their Party's hard-line (don't talk about it) stance ...
GOP sidetracked by abortion details
by Jonathan Allen, politico.com -- 8/24/12
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“When we get into the details, I don’t think it’s ever more inclusive of people,” Jackie Curtiss, a 22-year-old Republican National Committee member from Alabama told POLITICO in a telephone interview from Tampa. “I’m a Republican. I’m pro-life. … [but] if I was raped or my best friend was raped, I would hope we would have a chance to make the decision of whether to keep the child. That would be our decision, not the government’s, not the party’s.”
Curtiss was turned back in an attempt to strike a plank from the anti-abortion portion of the party’s platform that opposes FDA approval of drugs that would terminate pregnancies after the point of conception. She said she also was disappointed that the party didn’t respond to Akin’s remarks by approving exceptions to the anti-abortion policy in rape and other extreme cases.
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And then there are GOP Women who are
repeating some serious talking-points, desperately trying to get their rhetorical clown car, back on its tracks ...
[...] GOP strategist Mary Matalin said, adding that she believes Democrats failed to make the case that Republicans are waging a “War on Women.”
“The presumption that all women are as obsessed with their ‘reproductive rights’ is retro, liberal tripe. Women are concerned about their jobs -- or lack thereof, their bills, their families, the nation’s debt, the ‘new normal’ -- where the value of everything they planned on has gone down and the cost of everything they live on day to day has gone up,” she said. “In short, women are way more concerned about the kids they have, or hope to have, than the ones they may or may not abort.”
Stay classy, Matalin. There is an Election to be won, afterall.
And then there's the FACTS, that assail ALL American women -- no matter which side of the political spectrum they choose to live their lives.
Rape & Sexual Assault
FACTS:
-- 1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime
-- Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone, male or female, is sexually assaulted.
-- One in four college women report surviving rape (15 percent) or attempted rape (12 percent).
-- Rape victims have been found to be 8.7 times more likely to attempt suicide.
-- 64% of women who reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked since age 18 were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date.
-- More than 70% of sexual assault victims know their attacker.
-- 1.3 women are sexually assaulted every minute.
-- In a single year, over 90,000 women in the United States report a rape to law enforcement officials.
-- Each year, it is estimated 25,000 American women will become pregnant following an act of sexual violence.
(Sources: National Institute of Justice & Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence Against Women Survey, Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Warsaw, R. I Never Called It Rape. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, An Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence Aid and Resource Collection, Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women, Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, November, 2000, Stewart, Felicia and Trussel, James. "Prevention of Pregnancy Resulting from Rape." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2000.)
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Studies show about "25,000 American women will become pregnant following an act of sexual violence" each year.
That's calcs out to about 68 rape-caused pregnancies per day; or about 3 per hour. That's often.
Despite those facts, the Republican Platform is apparently still clinging the to belief that "pregnancy due to rape, are exceedingly rare." (as Todd Akin put it.)
And that Republican Platform is as out of touch with the Facts, as out of touch with reality, as its proponents who would have government enforce the raper's will -- than actually concede women should have a say, in their own lives ...