I've been googling in vain for a couple of things I vaguely recall about it from discussions on a long-ago internet board.
Actually, I now see I was probably wrong about one of them; it apparently happened in North Carolina:
http://www.witchvox.com/vn/vn_detail/dt_wn.html?a=uspa&id=11901(in a discussion about the US Dept of Justice's failure to include instructions about offering emergency contraception in its guidelines for the treatment of sexual assault victims)
I am reminded, for some odd reason, of an incident that happened in NC during the 1990s. A state representative said during a public meeting that there was no way a woman could get pregnant by being raped. According to him the "juices didn't flow" and conception just "didn't happen". This is right about the same time we had the Rev who swore Barney could lead kids into the occult.... we were the laughing stock of the nation for a *very* long time.
Aha, here we are:
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/hoax.htmlSuperstitions can have other horrible consequences in our modern world. Consider the 1996 case of North Carolina state
representative Henry Aldridge who explained why there was no need for his state to fund abortions for rape victims:
People who are raped — who are truly raped — the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work, and they don't get pregnant.
After Henry Aldridge's speech, the North Carolina State Legislature voted to reduce the amount of funds available to poor women having abortions from $1.2 million to $50,000. As a reward for his expertise on rape and pregnancy, Aldridge was appointed co-chair of the North Carolina House Committee on Human Resources, which oversees day care, services for the poor, and abortion funding.
Trying to remember who reported the other tale on that board, I don't know for sure whether she was from NC or VA. Anyhow, it involved a state legislator who recommended that women douche with Drano after sex to prevent pregnancy.
Oh well, I guess it just goes to show that stupidity and misogyny aren't unique to Virginia.