A decade after Todd Akin's “legitimate rape” comment sparked a national outcry, Roe is gone, and Akin's backwards views are only becoming more mainstream.
was overturned and lacks a rape exceptioncould force rape survivors as young as 13 to carry their rapist’s babies, and he acknowledged the depravity of this. But he also refused to do anything about it. “I would prefer a different outcome than that, but that’s not the debate today in Arkansas. It might be in the future, but for now, the law triggered with only one exception ... in the case of the life of the mother.
I can’t emphasize enough that rape exceptions to abortion bans are almost worthless in practice, because the . Nonetheless, anti-abortion lawmakers once used this exemption to present their abortion bans as compromises, to further abortion stigma by presentingabortions as acceptable, and the rest as frivolous and bad. If there were any real concerns about gender-based violence, abortion wouldn’t be banned, with or without exceptions—not when being
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