Idaho To Force Rape Victims To Carry Their Assailants Baby

by: Bill Egnor AKA Something The Dog Said

Fri Apr 08, 2011 at 09:08:32 AM MST

There is something about a woman's ability to control her reproduction that the Republicans and Teahadists just hate. There is nothing reasonable about it,  there is no way to give it respect or credence as a deeply held view. That they claim a moral justification based on their religion does not make it any less a violation of the rights of an adult human to decide when and if they will reproduce.

Which does not stop these people who claim to love the freedom of the United States from trying to inject the law into every uterus in the nation, by putting tighter and tighter restrictions on abortions. This time it is the Idaho State Legislature.

They have passed a bill that would make the performance of an abortion on a woman who is twenty weeks pregnant a felony in Idaho. To make matters worse, they have not included any exceptions for rape, incest, fetal deformation or the mental or psychological health of the woman. Only if the pregnancy is going to kill the woman is there any exemption.

You might think that I am Christian bashing when I say this about religion but let me give you the quotes from a couple of legislators that supported this heinous piece of woman hating legislation. From the Think Progress article:

"Is not the child of that rape or incest also a victim?" asked Rep. Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton. "It didn't ask to be here. It was here under violent circumstances perhaps, but that was through no fault of its own."[...]

The Idaho bill's House sponsor, state Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, told legislators that the "hand of the Almighty" was at work. "His ways are higher than our ways," Crane said. "He has the ability to take difficult, tragic, horrific circumstances and then turn them into wonderful examples."

There was only a single Republican who voted against this bill and we should give credit where credit is due, that takes guts in Idaho. Not that it mattered the vote was 54-15 in favor.

While there are some pro-life Democrats out there in elected office, lets be clear there is only one party that wants to treat woman as baby factories and that is the Republican Party. They want to shame the sluts, they want to punish women who get pregnant even if they were sexually assaulted. After all they must have been asking for it, no?

This kind of shit makes my blood boil. It verges on inhuman. There is one little bit of irony in this stance of making women bear the consequences of being raped. It is quite like the barbaric laws in some Islamic nations where a raped woman is punished for the crime more often than the perpetrator. You would think that the folks in Idaho would spun up to be so close to the scary Muslims that they probably hate.

In then end extremists are extremists and they always look more similar than not. There can be no better term for them than Teahadists.

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