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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 01:09 PM Jan 2015

Lindsey Graham Tells Anti-Choice Activists: We Need To Find 'Way Out Of Definitional Problem w/Rape'



Sen. Lindsey Graham, chief Senate sponsor of the GOP’s effort to undermine Roe by banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, spoke this morning to the Family Research Council’s “ProLifeCon,” about the House GOP’s decision to cancel a vote on its version of the bill that had been planned for today. The House leadership pulled the plug on the vote in response to protests from some Republican women who objected to a provision that exempted rape survivors from the ban only if they report the rape to police. Some anti-choice groups have objected to including a rape exception in the bill at all, a last-minute addition after the bill’s previous House sponsor, Trent Franks, implied that women who are raped rarely get pregnant.
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Graham acknowledged that opponents of rape exceptions are being “intellectually consistent and honest about ‘the baby is the baby’” but argued that banning rape survivors from accessing abortion is a political impossibility: “Some of us who have these exceptions do so in a democratic society believing that there are some places we will not go.”

“I’m going to need your help to find a way out of this definitional problem with rape,” he told the audience.

“The rape exception will be part of the bill…We just need to find a way definitionally to not get us in a spot where we’re debating about what a legitimate rape is, that’s not the cause that we’re in,” he said.
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Lindsey Graham Tells Anti-Choice Activists: We Need To Find 'Way Out Of Definitional Problem w/Rape' (Original Post) big_dog Jan 2015 OP
so rape is a "defnitional problem", not actually a crime, primarily against women. sure thing linny niyad Jan 2015 #1
Rape is Rape will do just fine lindseed riversedge Jan 2015 #2
Translation kwolf68 Jan 2015 #3
Why are old... onyourleft Jan 2015 #4
A "definitional problem"???? 3catwoman3 Jan 2015 #5

niyad

(112,434 posts)
1. so rape is a "defnitional problem", not actually a crime, primarily against women. sure thing linny
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 01:12 PM
Jan 2015

kwolf68

(7,365 posts)
3. Translation
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 01:36 PM
Jan 2015

We need a propaganda campaign to wash away the rape.

Rape or not, it's NOT YOUR FUCKING business what a women does with her body. It's NO ONES business but hers.

And THAT argument is no longer good enough anymore. Now we need to "justify" abortion by using the rape defense. Abortion does not need to be justified. In fact the proper term of miscarriage is "natural abortion"...so basically God is the biggest abortionist in the world. Go fuck with him Lindsay. If you can find him.

onyourleft

(726 posts)
4. Why are old...
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 01:53 PM
Jan 2015

...white males still discussing what women can and cannot do with their bodies? Why are they still trying to tell women whether or not they were raped? The issue of abortion is really easy: If you don't like abortion then do not have one.

3catwoman3

(23,815 posts)
5. A "definitional problem"????
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 02:29 PM
Jan 2015

Here's a definition that is no problem at all - Senator Graham is the definition of the word moron.

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