By removing even exceptions for rape from their anti-abortion legislation, Republican politicians are finally starting to say the quiet part out loud.
bans abortion without exceptions for rape, and nearly a dozen other state legislatures are racing to replicate it as we speak.are pushing this agenda with the strong support of mainstream Republican lawmakers—the same ones who used to try to play it both ways but are now seemingly eager to demand that survivors, should they become pregnant, be forced to carry and birth their rapists’ babies. Abortion bans always made this horrifying outcome possible, even with an exception for rape on paper.
Fewer and fewer abortion restrictions with rape exceptions, and shrinking Republican support for these exceptions, signal a daunting reality: The anti-abortion movement has finally seized enough political power to enact abortion bans almost indiscriminately, without even theSurvivors’ trauma was “reduced to currency” by rape exceptions
Rape exceptions put Republicans in a political bind. Abortion bans without any exemptions for rape and incest survivors are deeply , and yet, true believers who insist that “abortion is murder” cannot admit that there are situations in whichrecently, anyone who branched off from the contradictory narrative that they could care about women and survivors while opposing abortion at the same time was disavowed: Ten years ago, then-Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin essentially tanked his campaign by asserting that we don’t need rape exceptions to abortion bans...
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