Saturday, February 7, 2015
Another GOP Legislator Makes Insensitive Rape Comment
The Huffington Post: Another GOP Lawmaker Wades Into Rape Debate, by Laura Bassett:
A Republican state lawmaker said Thursday that women who become pregnant from sexual assault should not be exempt from an anti-abortion measure, because childbirth resulting from rape is "beautiful."
"Obviously rape is awful," West Virginia Del. Brian Kurcaba (R) said during a committee hearing on a new abortion restriction, according to David Gutman, a Charleston Gazette reporter. "What is beautiful is the child that could come from this." . . .
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2015/02/another-gop-legislator-makes-insensitive-rape-comment.html