Pregnancy and the GOP

[mlp]

One difference is that your example affects oneself mostly, whilst politics is a issue for everyone.

That's not as important a distinction as you seem to think it is. IMO, people tend to not see themselves and their places in the world very realistically. And they tend to have a rather touching belief that bad things will not happen to them, whether it's the potential of a health problems from eating poorly and not exercising, or losing their finacial security and having to rely on government programs.

A core GOP constituency consists of voters from the states who rely most heavily on federal government programs and voters who rely directly on "government handouts", all of which the GOP decries. A good portion of the GOP derided "47%" vote Republican, maybe because they don't see themselves as belonging to that 47%.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

Also, an awful lot of people want to impose their beliefs on others, especially where anything even remotely religious is involved.

 

[Muggle]

Only if you by opinion mean "wanting to have your reproductive rights stolen away".

Or however it goes, I'm not 100% into American politics as of lately.

I don't think you're getting it. They have the right to have that opinion.

 

[Wolfie]

The "rape thing":

I'm sorry, but anyone who speaks of rape in such terms should have his head dunked in a vat of excrement. And incest is "so rare"?!?!

I vote for vat of cement. Then donate him for display at a museum so others can see what happens when you make such blockhead comments. I don't think incest is as rare as he thinks either.

 

[PiSis]

his "incest is rare" is so off.
sadly, a huge percentage of women in or recovering from addiction and/or alcoholism have been sexually abused by their fathers.
from this, one could reasonably assume the same high numbers for women in prison.
plus all the rest of the women who don't fall into these two groups and we are talking nowhere close to rare at all.

 

[Envy]

Well, we shouldn't assume that incest = abuse though.

 

[PiSis]

sorry, Envy, i'm not getting what you're getting at.

 

[Freesia]

If the GOP is so horrible towards women, then why are so many of them voting on that very party?

Because they are concerned about the economy and believe that Mitt Romney will send the money trickling down to them (sadly he wont).

 

[Lord Snot]

his "incest is rare" is so off.
sadly, a huge percentage of women in or recovering from addiction and/or alcoholism have been sexually abused by their fathers.
from this, one could reasonably assume the same high numbers for women in prison.
plus all the rest of the women who don't fall into these two groups and we are talking nowhere close to rare at all.

I'd be interested to know if most incest is non-consensual. I've always been under the impression that the consensual 'experimentation' kind is by far more common than abusive situations. Of course that's side-stepping the issue that it can't really be consensual between two minors, I'm just using the phrase lazily and hoping people know what I mean.

 

[mlp]

I'd be interested to know if most incest is non-consensual. I've always been under the impression that the consensual 'experimentation' kind is by far more common than abusive situations. Of course that's side-stepping the issue that it can't really be consensual between two minors, I'm just using the phrase lazily and hoping people know what I mean.

I think the contrary is true - most incest is non-consensual. The studies I've seen in the past confirm that.

 

[PiSis]

I'd be interested to know if most incest is non-consensual. I've always been under the impression that the consensual 'experimentation' kind is by far more common than abusive situations. Of course that's side-stepping the issue that it can't really be consensual between two minors, I'm just using the phrase lazily and hoping people know what I mean.

yes, most incest is non-consensual because the only incest that could be consensual is if the incest started when both parties were adults who hadn't ever been living under the same roof prior. all other circumstances would involve one party grooming the other party.
there's a lot of information regarding this subject here on Oprah's site, who was herself a victim of incest.

 

[FortyTwo]

Walsh argued that "with modern technology and science, you can't find one instance" in which an abortion would be needed to save a woman's life.

Of course not, because if the woman's life needed to be saved then the pregnancy would have stopped itself by then, the same it does with rape-sperm.