Joan has a FP story about Linda McMahon's bizarre word-salad attempt to salvage her emergency-contraception-for-rape-victims-in-Catholic-hospitals fiasco.
MCMAHON: It was really an issue about a Catholic church being forced to offer those pills if the person came in in an emergency rape. That was my response to it. I absolutely think that we should avail women who come in with rape victims the opportunity to have those morning after pills or the treatment that they should get.
OK, Joan already addressed the "church" part (I assume she meant "hospital"), and
Jacoby Jonze pointed out that according to McMahon, the actual rape victim herself shouldn't receive the morning-after pill, just the woman who, apparently, accompanies the victim.
However, there's two more word-salad bits here:
MCMAHON: It was really an issue about a Catholic church being forced to offer those pills if the person came in in an emergency rape. That was my response to it. I absolutely think that we should avail women who come in with rape victims the opportunity to have those morning after pills or the treatment that they should get.
"If
the person came in"..."the person"?? Really? Don't get me wrong, I do recognize that there's a small percentage of men who are raped (usually boys, I would imagine...and a large percentage of those have been by...wait for it...Catholic priests...but that's another issue).
However, male rape victims, for all the trauma they suffered, don't require emergency contraception...which makes McMahon's weird reference to "the person" coming in instead of "the woman" really, really strange.
Not as strange as the rest of the sentence, though, in which she refers to "the person coming in in an emergency rape".
Perhaps my understanding of the laws of physics and the space-time continuum are off, but I don't think a fully-grown "person" can physically exist INSIDE OF an act of violence. But that's just me.
But wait, there's more! According to McMahon, there's such a thing as an "emergency rape!"
Apparently this is to be distinguished from the regular, run-of-the-mill, various-and-sundry rapes that one can find at any local retailer.
Apparently there are some rapes that are simply "predicament rapes", not "emergencies".