"PRO-LIFE" POLICIES EMPOWER RAPISTS.
ALWAYS HAVE.
FULL STOP.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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We should start calling them pro rape.
That's a staggering amount of rapes, and it's not even all of them
Not a surprise. Rape is more about control and power than sexual gratification so anti abortion laws encourage would be rapist. There's no greater way to display power and control over someone than to take away their body autonomy. Pro birthers are the lowest of the low. They secretly love the idea of a women being raped and becoming pregnant as a result. In their mind the victim is at least good for something.
The number of rape cases here is hard to grasp... Holy shit.
Edit: I looked up the statistics and it's absolutely insane. "it is estimated that 734,630 people were raped (threatened, attempted, or completed) in the United States in 2018."
In a country with 330 million, that's 0.22% of the population in ONE YEAR. If your probability of not being raped in any given year is 0.9978, to see what's the likelihood to go 30 years without being raped, you take 0.9978^30 and you get 0.936 so you have a 6.4% chance to get raped in a span of 30 years. These numbers are absolutely hard to comprehend, please tell me I got the math wrong...
... WTF is wrong with humanity.
Based off the women in my life who've been comfortable enough to talk to me about it those numbers seem about right sadly. If anything they're low because I'm sure some of them don't talk to me about what's happened to them. I'm really disgusted with humanity pretty much all the time these days.
Your math isn’t wrong but your premise is… which is still terrible. Once a person has been raped, they have a higher chance of being raped again. 35 times higher, in fact.
"it is estimated that 734,630 people were raped (threatened, attempted, or completed) in the United States in 2018."
Doesn't the wording of this means that this statistics doesn't count the number of rape acts that have been committed, but the number of people who've been raped that year. That means that if a person was raped 10 times that year, the number above would go up by 1. Am I misreading this?
Can't their bodies just shut it down? I was told that they can.
Women should be armed and dangerous. No table, can't change my mind.
Republicans, through legislation are paving the way towards a fascist dictatorship which will include lots of rape.
All fascist dictatorships included lots of rape. It is one of the defining social characteristics of authoritarian societies and was a present in the regimes of Mussolini and Hitler as well as their more modern counterparts such as the regimes of Saddam Hussein and ISIS.
These two things are really the same thing and are inseparable because it is always about power and the maintaining of authoritarian power dynamics. This is just what right-wingers do and have always done.
Those numbers are heartbreaking. Even worse, I would expect these numbers to have gone up and continue to go up because of the abortion ban.
It's also sad to see how weak the democrats are that they haven't passed a bill to make abortion legal yet.
64,565 rapists live openly raping women in Texas. Is this not the more concerning concern? Like sure, 65k women are pregnant now and who cares about their life right? But that's 65k within just a few months. I assume it's gotta be less than 65k rapists? Most probably more than 1 rapist. So middle of the road, a rapist that raped 4 women in the past few months so like 13,000 rapists. How long will it take 13,000 rapists to rape everyone you know personally? Wife, daughter, mom, friend? Isn't that also important? Okay maybe keep abortion available until you Texas chop 13,000 dicks off?
Oh, before we forget,
"But but but ..... not all men!"
Wow. That is an insane number.
What a fucked up place to live.
JFC. I already knew that the amount of rape going on was bad, but still. What a goddamn world we live in.
Sad