Law requiring rape/incest victims to make a police report in order to have an abortion.

[berniesandersmittens]

(Crosspost from Arkansas Group)


Arkansas passes law requiring rape, incest victims to report crime before abortion

The requirement will not apply to a near-total abortion ban Hutchinson signed earlier this year that doesn’t include exceptions for rape or incest. Opponents have vowed to challenge that ban in court before it takes effect later this summer.

Opponents of the requirement said it will further victimize women, considering the high number of rapes that aren’t reported to police. About three out of four rapes and sexual assaults are not reported to law enforcement, according to the Justice Department.

Supporters have argued the requirement will give the state better data on how many abortions are performed because of rape or incest

https://www.google.com/amp/s/katv.com/amp/news/local/arkansas-passes-law-requiring-rape-incest-victims-to-report-crime-before-abortion

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Don't any of these Neanderthals

making this law have wives, mothers, sisters?

This just defies explanation.

Yeah, because the police are going to do something about it.

[niyad]

2. And The WAR ON WOMEN proceeds apace. Thank you for sharing this.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. More intrusion into women's personal medical and reproductive choices.

You don't seriously think they are doing this to apprehend and prosecute the rapist, do you?

[berniesandersmittens]

5. Exactly!

[Layzeebeaver]

4. And exactly why do they need to know this?

“Supporters have argued the requirement will give the state better data on how many abortions are performed because of rape or incest”

So a law is needed to get better data? Seriously?

[demigoddess]

6. just about every woman I have ever known has told me about being

molested/raped by male relatives. How can kids be required to report their relatives, or a mother her own son?

[BeckyDem]

7. The Subjection of Women

The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869,[1] with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. Mill submitted the finished manuscript of their collaborative work On Liberty (1859) soon after her untimely death in late 1858, and then continued work on The Subjection of Women until its completion in 1861. At the time of its publication, the essay's argument for equality between the sexes was an affront to European conventional norms regarding the status of men and women.

In his Autobiography, Mill describes his indebtedness to his wife, and his daughter Helen Taylor for the creation of The Subjection of Women:

As ultimately published it was enriched with some important ideas of my daughter’s and some passages of her writing. But all that is most striking and profound in what was written by me belongs to my wife, coming from the fund of thought that had been made common to us both by our innumerable conversations and discussions on a topic that filled so large a place in our minds.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Subjection_of_Women


( Check out the year this was written. It indicates intelligence and humanity, neither of which we are seeing from a sector of Americans today.)