Georgia, where I live, will probably cross the 50% non-Hispanic white level in next year's census, making us a "majority minority" state. About 75% of the state's population growth is coming from the Atlanta metro. The city's growth is bringing in a diverse population from other places. So yeah, conservatives are fighting a rear-guard action when the numbers are against them.
JFC...No exceptions, either. They hate women, and they sure don't love children as they don't give a fuck about them once born. Remember Texas refused the expand medicaid under the ACA.
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To be fair, according to the report it seems even most Texas anti-abortion campaigners recognise this as legislative theatre and trolling:
The reasoning of the bill's sponsor, State Rep Tony Tinderholt, is worth noting:
What the flying fuck is a "consensual rape"??? There is no such thing, other than being a Republican construct designed to exert control over women and their bodies!
Missouri Lawmaker Cites 'Consensual Rapes' as House Passes Abortion Bill
The Missouri House has voted to approve some of the strictest abortion laws in the country, and because it's Missouri, the process somehow managed to...www.riverfronttimes.com
It occurs to me, there's a sick, twisted reason these states are passing draconian anti-abortion laws that goes beyond giving white men power over women and their bodies in their respective states. They know full well these new laws will be challenged. They want that. They want these challenges brought all the way to the Supreme Court, freshly stacked with ultra-conservatives, in the hope of overturning Roe v. Wade once and for all.
Fuck him. Fuck him with a whole fucking cactus AND a rusty screwdriver! I guess men don't have to be "more personally responsible with sex"?
To be fair, he claims it was a slip of the tongue.
Thanks for that explanation. It does make sense, although I have to wonder as to his state of mind, what he was thinking, when he made that slip. But while that may have been an honest slip of the tongue, I can't help but wonder how many right-wing nut jobs out there genuinely believe such a thing exists.To be fair, he claims it was a slip of the tongue.
The context makes that at least plausible:
Missouri Lawmaker Cites 'Consensual Rapes' as House Passes Abortion Bill
The Missouri House has voted to approve some of the strictest abortion laws in the country, and because it's Missouri, the process somehow managed to...
Similarly, in the UK, the great majority of rape allegations involve not attacks by strangers but incidents in which the complainant and the defendant know each other, whether as friends, relatives or sexual partners, past or present, and there's hardly any dispute over the facts of the case other than the crucial issue of consent.
Without further information, I'd be prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt and accept his explanation.
What’s clear to me is that none of these yo-yos really understand what consent is, or it would be *obvious* that being on a date with someone is not a kind of “partial consent.”To be fair, he claims it was a slip of the tongue.
The context makes that at least plausible:
Missouri Lawmaker Cites 'Consensual Rapes' as House Passes Abortion Bill
The Missouri House has voted to approve some of the strictest abortion laws in the country, and because it's Missouri, the process somehow managed to...
Similarly, in the UK, the great majority of rape allegations involve not attacks by strangers but incidents in which the complainant and the defendant know each other, whether as friends, relatives or sexual partners, past or present, and there's hardly any dispute over the facts of the case other than the crucial issue of consent.
Without further information, I'd be prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt and accept his explanation.
Considering the alarming lack of basic knowledge about female anatomy and about human reproduction and gestation in general displayed by many male Republican legislators, and the bizarre ideas about medical procedures some of them seem to have, ranging from why a late-term abortion is normally performed to one chap's idea I read recently that it would be a simple procedure, in the case of an ectopic pregnancy, to remove the embryo and reattach it to the wall of the uterus, it would not surprise me at all if some legislators thought consensual rape was a thing.
Yes, but I think he was trying to say that most rape investigations the police conduct concern complaints that the couple were out on a date and then afterwards, he wanted to have sex, she refused, but he ignored that and raped her rather than that the woman was out running when a stranger came out the bushes, forced her off the path, raped her and ran off.
I get that's what he's saying....but why does it even matter unless his point is that the former kind of rape isn't "really rape", compared to the latter? Remember the context of his comments originally here is that he was arguing AGAINST adding an exception for rape victims to the anti-abortion bill and this was supposed to be his reasoning for that. What is even the relevance of the fact that some rapes are "date rapes" to that conversation, unless it's to imply that it's wrong for victims of date-rape to want an abortion?
Hold my beer.
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