Echinde (and Digby) are right on the spot with this. It all gets back to the idea that for so many of these "pro-life" agitators, abortion is not really about pregnancy, it's about punishing women for having sex.
That's made very clear by douchebags like Bill Napoli, a Republican State Senator in South Dakota, who thinks that issues like whether or not you were a virgin when you got raped should even remotely matter as to whether you should be allowed to have an abortion.
This is his idea of reality, by the way. How inconvenient that reality doesn't match up with his foggy memories of past times:
When I was growing up here in the wild west, if a young man got a girl pregnant out of wedlock, they got married, and the whole darned neighborhood was involved in that wedding. I mean, you just didn't allow that sort of thing to happen, you know? I mean, they wanted that child to be brought up in a home with two parents, you know, that whole story. And so I happen to believe that can happen again.....I don't think we're so far beyond that, that we can't go back to that.
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Problem: you become pregnant after being raped.
Solution: marry your rapist!
All that Western fresh air and clear skies must really fuck a guy up.
Posted by Sara | March 4, 2006 7:05 PM