The following is taken directy from the Doubting Thomas blog:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/june-carbone/how-to-stop-the-rights-ca_b_816258.html “House Republicans rode into office on claims that President Obama and the Democratic Congress were promoting a “liberal” agenda rather than focusing on the real task at hand — job creation.Yet the first act of the new Republican House was a symbolic repeal of health care followed by a focus on the true conservative passion: regulating the sex lives of the most vulnerable and politically powerless women. The latest proposal, which would limit benefits for rape victims unless they could show that the rape was “forcible,” reintroduces a distinction that women fought for decades to eliminate — the notion that “real rape” can only occur when a stranger jumps out of the bushes and holds a woman at gunpoint. Otherwise, the woman must necessarily be complicit in the resulting pregnancy and should be forced to bear the child.”

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING STORY IN ITS ENTIRETY AT:

http://doubtsinwi.blogspot.com/2011/01/can-we-re-define-rape.html#links

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