Texas had over 26K rape-related pregnancies in 16 months after abortion ban, study shows The Texas total is almost as many rape-related pregnancies as the next six states combined -- Missouri (5,825), Tennessee (4,990), Arkansas (4,660), Oklahoma (4,530), Louisiana (4,290) and Alabama (4,130). https://abc13.com/texas-abortion-la...d-pregnancies-roe-v-wade-overturned/14359073/
So over turning RvW turned everyone into rapist? And to solve our rape problem we should allow abortions?
Are you mentally ill? We have two separate issues here. Women should have a right to an abortion. Rapists will always exists in our society. So stop playing stupid and acting as if legalizing abortion reduces the number of rapes. The two are not mutually exclusive. The law is backwards at making a woman carry a fetus full term when raped because some hypocrite jerk that claims to be moral wants to have a moment of morality.
Why do you say this? I do not see the connection. A rationale rapist might think to themselves that my rape victim will now be forced to give birth and DNA tests will conclusively link me to the product of the rape. There is also the double whammy that when the rapist gets out of jail he is now going owe past and future child support.
26,000 rapes that result in pregnancies? We have a rape problem. Its estimated 5% of rapes end in pregnancies. That means half a million women in texas have been raped in the last 18 months. In 2021, it is estimated there are 6 million women between 15-44 in texas. In the last year and a half, you and the OP are suggesting 1 in 12 women have been raped. Texas has about 400k births a year, so that estimate is about 600k births since RvW. So 1 out of 23 pregnancies are victims of rape? What is absolutely disgusting is people like yourself pushing these numbers for pro abortion at the expense of rape victims. If any of these numbers are remotely close, we have a serious rape problem nobody is talking about.
What is absolutely disgusting is people like yourself caring more about minutiae than rape victims. It is like you are thinking that if the real number was 260 versus 26,000 then somehow that is ... not so bad. It is just like. Quoting The Internet ... WE ARE ALL RAPIST NOW.
We do have a serious rape problem. And further punishing the victims of rape by forcing them to carry and give birth after being raped is monstrous. Even more monstrous, treating rape victims as criminals.
uhh dude. I literally said said if those numbers are that high, we should be talking about a rape epidemic, including its victims. Instead, your solution is to abort the 18k fetuses. Aborting this is more important than stopping them. I dont know what the real number is. All I stated was that if there are indeed 26k rape pregnancies', we either a rape epidemic. Or that 26k number is way off. And if its off, people using this number to push their abortion views are very shitty.
If Texas has a serious rape problem, why are we just now hearing about it? Are you alluding that if we can simply kill those rape fetuses, we no longer have a rape problem? This is narrow minded liberal thinking: If we have a gun problem, lets remove the guns! If we have a rape problem, lets _B_. A) stop the rapist B) kill the fetus Because nobody is really talking about how to stop the rapist and instead talking about how we really need to bring back killing fetuses.
I'm not parading anything. I'm simply responding to your comment suggesting that legalizing abortion would reduce our rape issue. That's a dumb statement and I standby stating that it is a dumb statement.
See what I mean. Two separate issues, yet you are attempting to tie them together. No one in their right mind is saying: "You legalize abortion for rape victims, the number of rape cases will go down." WTF dude, how the hell do you even come to that conclusion. The stance is, rape is an on-going issue that will have no end, therefore we need to legalize for rape victims to have the opportunity to abort a fetus if that is their wishes. Not sure how the **** you twisted the statement, but congrats, you did it.
What is disgusting is men like you would expect women or teens to carry and care for a baby from some criminal or pedo who raped them. They should have a choice. They didn't choose to be raped, and nobody should force them to keep that embryo and carry it into development if they didn't choose to get pregnant. As the study shows, there is documented underreporting of rape with suggestions that only 1/3 of rapes are reported. These are estimates, and you should read the article yourself if you question the numbers. Don't expect to hear the truth from guys like Greg Abbott, who promised to eliminate rape like the bullshitter of all bullshitters. He's nothing but a man with no clue and no soul. If you want to force your teenage daughter or wife to carry the baby after they are raped I feel sorry for them. If you want your daughter carrying your baby, or the baby of your son or brother that's pretty sick. There are a huge percentage of girls raped by family members. You, or nobody else has any business telling some other woman or child that. Talk about adding trauma to trauma. That, and the fact that the same types who push these agendas call affordable healthcare socialism. Who's going to pay to care for the child? Maybe the victim is a child themself. Maybe the victim can't afford to care for themselves, let alone a child. Maybe they don't have money for prenatal care while becoming a forced vessel to carry that child before giving it up for adoption. Read the link in the article if you question it. There is documented underreporting of rape with suggestions that only 1/3 of rapes are reported. That's how they estimated the numbers. You won't hear about any of this from Greg Abbott, who promised to eliminate rape like the fool he is. That's not possible. There will always be rapists and pedos.
I wonder if there are court cases for those 26K rapists now that the evidence is in plain sight. Can't demand for convictions, but at at least some due process is in order.
People have been talking about this forever. You're just now noticing. It's an age-old problem that won't be solved anytime soon. Republicans are making it worse for rape victims by forcing them to carry to term, and you seem to be perfectly fine with that. 1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime (14.8% completed, 2.8% attempted). A majority of child victims are 12-17. Of victims under the age of 18: 34% of victims of sexual assault and rape are under age 12, and 66% of victims of sexual assault and rape are age 12-17 https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem
Like the study link in the report says, there is documented underreporting of rape with suggestions that only 1/3 of rapes are reported. These numbers take that into account. A big percentage of the victims are afraid to go to the police, and there are many reasons for that. Factoring in unreported rapes, only about 6% of rapists ever serve a day in jail. It's sad, but true. If a rape is reported, there is a 50.8% chance of an arrest. If an arrest is made, there is an 80% chance of prosecution. If there is a prosecution, there is a 58% chance of conviction.
The number here is 12.4%, not 5% https://www.houstonchronicle.com/ne...s-estimated-26k-pregnancies-rape-18625692.php Following the June 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the researchers estimated there were 519,981 rapes associated with 64,565 pregnancies during the four to 18 months after states implemented total abortion bans. Of those pregnancies, an estimated 5,586 occurred in states with exceptions for rape and 58,979 in states with no exceptions.
