Painful Journey Nearly Complete

[MountainLaurel]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52658-2004Nov15.html

This article is about a rape victim whose attacker is about to be sentenced, more than a decade after the crime. Interesting, but then I got to this part:

In the exam room, a volunteer read her Scripture and forgave her for her sins. Heck forcefully told the nurse that the volunteer was no longer needed.

and then

Police then took her, still dressed in a paper gown, back to the crime scene.

:nuke:

[yardwork]

1. Also note that she was advised to take a morning-after pill

Many of the people who voted for bushco want to make morning-after pills illegal. They would take away any right this woman and the thousands of other rape victims to prevent giving birth to the rapist's child.

[MountainLaurel]

2. Yep

Although this being Virginia, I'm even surprised it was offered to her at that period in time -- the place where this occurred is on the edge of Northern Virginia (i.e., the DC metro area) and the REAL Virginia (where Confederate flags and bible-thumpers abound)