Christ on a crouton
I’m awarding myself Tweet of the Day because I’m self-congratulatory and because you need to watch Ron Paul answer a question about his views on rape, abortion, and reproductive rights:
“If it’s an honest rape,” Paul replied, “that individual should go immediately to the emergency room, I would give them a shot of estrogen.” He claimed, however, that if a woman is “seven months pregnant” and says that she was raped, “It’s a little bit of a different story.”
Apparently there’s something called Honest Rape™ and that is something different than Dishonest Rape™:
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Pepaw is off his rocker, but he’s “anti-war” so let’s keep talking about how awesome he is. It’s important to the political discourse.
[via Raw Story]
I’m curious to see how Ron Paul’s supporters will spin this.
One: Prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve, all Rapes were honest rapes?
Two: If it wasn’t for the pressure exerted by the Israeli lobby and their puppets in the MSM, there wouldn’t be any rapes?
Three: In the perfect world that will emerge after he’s elected in November, all women will be empowered to fight off their attackers with magic new libertarian powers?
Four: Estrogen will be one of the drugs he’d legalize?
Honest Rape? What kind of weird mental contortions must someone put themselves through to come up with that idiotic category? Not since the Justinian Code…..
Thusly:
they’re feigning outrage at my minimizing danger of women lying about rape and also playing the lynch card — as if that’s even the point.
the point is: there are not scores of women trying to get free late-term abortions by claiming they were raped. there’s just not. i have no statistics to support my assertion, but i’d but money on it.
it’s insanity.
Ron Paul conveniently ignores the push by some members of his very own party in Congress to decriminalize rape by making the woman accept full responsibility and be forced to “prove” that she has been raped. Here in GA, our state legislature, dominated by the RW, is on the same path, and I’ve read that other states in which the RW have majorities seem to have received the same memo. Sometimes I wonder what Ron Paul has been doing in all of his years in Congress because he seems woefully unqualified to hold the seat. Until he and other misogynists become women, they should sit down and STFU about matters relating to women. I sincerely think that those of us who are women should provide massive pushback (with the assistance of compassionate males) on idiotic ideas like this one and on banning contraceptives and other types of health care for women. If we have to give up contraceptives, men should have to give up cialis, viagra, and condoms, because to do otherwise would present an unequall playing field that provides advantages to men and not to women in the area of health care. I’ve about taken all I’m willing to take from these tools. If Ron Paul had daughters or granddaughters who had been the victims of rape, he’d change his tune so quickly it would give us whiplash from just listening to him attempt to offer a justification for his female relative wanting an abortion. Give me a break.
Well, can’t believe it but that is a new one to me. Hadn’t heard that African Americans should be pushing “honest rape” in the political discourse because of all the black men and women and children who were lynched due to false accusations. That is new to me….
Dunno where I fall seeing as rape was institutionalized via my African American foremothers in these here United States. Institutionalized and provided profit for the foundation of this nation. It is doubtful if America would be a superpower if not for the wombs of African American women, many boring children through rape and forced birth. And yet, how long did it take for someone (never mind white) to be convicted of “honest rape” of black women?
Is that sorta like “profit rape” and what is Paul’s stance on that? Rhetorical question because I’m sure he has a free market answer for the institutionalized rape of African American women.
Sadly, it’s not just right-wingers who are capable of these mental and linguistic contortions. I remember Whoopi Goldberg’s defense of Polanski when he was arrested in Switzerland a couple years ago — “it wasn’t rape-rape.” Ugh. Rape culture knows no political ideology.
Neither does toadying or slobbering careerism. I lost a lot of respect for Ms. Goldberg there.
I have felt hostile toward Whoopi ever since that. I was sickened by the way Hollywood closed ranks around that bastard and made excuses for him.
Feh.
Oh, you know what else is awesome about this? Now we can look forward to ramblingly huffy dissertations denying Saint Ronnie II’s misogyny in addition to those denying his racism.
Mitt Romney can call his time at Bain honest graft(lifted from Tammany Hall). These guys are killing me. With Dr Paul I’m concerned for him. It might be time to send the crazy uncle packing. The media loves a testicle. They’ll give time to anyone willing to make a fool of one’s self(see Trump, Newt, now Paul).
Fascinating, but incredibly stupid. Allow me to rant.
If I understand correctly, he is saying that rape victims should have immediate access to emergency contraception. I approve of this.
He then goes on to announce that women who seek abortions in the third trimester should not be allowed to do so on grounds of rape, because ‘it’s a little bit different’. Here the plot gets thick, and sickening.
It’s not actually possible to get a third-trimester abortion under most normal circumstances in the United States. So the notion that women are carrying pregnancies for seven months and then claiming to have been raped in order to undergo an expensive, and hard-to-secure late-term abortion is, well, bullshit of bullshit.
This crazy Potempkin village of fail, of course, accomplishes several things:
1. It allows his groupies on and off Twitter to nurse their fantasy that women ‘cry rape’ falsely all the time.
2. It allows a fantasy that emergency contraception is universally available.
3. It manages to imply that women have third-trimester abortions all the time for frivolous reasons.
4. So much more stupidity that I cannot list it all.
Meanwhile, we completely ignore the period between missing a period and the end of the first trimester, which is when most women actually abort, for whatever reason they may choose to do so. The right to do that, of course, is what Paul is perfectly happy to take away.
Meanwhile, the Twitter groupies are insisting that women sleep with men, regret it after, and cry rape. If this is true, (heavy sarcasm), and women are using this as an excuse to get abortions (which they are legally entitled to without allegations of rape), then I am disturbed (more heavy sarcasm), by Dr. Paul’s apparent willingness to snuff out a fertilized egg merely on the say-so of a woman who MIGHT have been raped, or who might have just hooked up at a party and regretted it. How will Dr. Paul determine that the lady in his office was ‘honestly’ raped? Must she file a police report? Must she have a shiner and ripped clothes? What will stop her from having a girlfriend rip up her clothes and sock her to give credibility to her claim? I think that to be safest, we should insist on a conviction before any abortion takes place. If the child has been born by then, OOOPS. (Massive, smoldering, dripping, messy sarcasm.)
I just LURVE politicians who replace policy and ethics with vague personal fantasies. Notice how he injects himself into the scene as the old country doctor, ready to help out.
PePaw … I love it. I also love how he sought to come across in this interview as the kindly old country doctor. And I’m pissed that Piers Morgan, who knows a thing or two, didn’t bring up anything about Paul’s racism nor the type of supporter he attracts. A lot of the craven Professional Left – like Bill Maher, moral coward – are walking back their support for PePaw, but for all reasons except the main one: He believes in States Rights and doesn’t believe in Civil Rights. It’s so frustrating I’m going out barefoot in ten inches of snow to protest and get frostbite.
Fuck you, Ron Paul. That is pretty much all I have to say about that. From now on, that will be my only response to him. I’m done.