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According to GOP Akin: Pregnancy Doesn't Happen When Raped

I think it would still have been a big deal if he said forcible rape could cause pregnancy.
 
PhDeac said:
I think it would still have been a big deal if he said forcible rape could cause pregnancy.
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Oh my bad. I had forgotten the whole pregnancy angle on this thing and was just thinking of the forcible/legitimate distinction. Duh.
 
Junebug said:
It's not a perfect analogy, but some legal theorists propose a "battered women's syndrome" defense to murder that would apply even when traditional self-defense analysis wouldn't work. I don't know if any argue that the theory should be invoked in cases of purely emotional harm, but this theory would apply when the harm to the woman is something less than life-threatening.

It just seems cruel to force an innocent woman who was the victim of rape to carry a child she doesn't want--and did nothing to create--to term.
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In that case the person who was killed is not innocent if he/she was psychologically abusive.

It seems to me that any comparisons to self defense are flawed in that the person that killed in self defense is generally the one that was the subject of abuse. There aren't legally sanctioned hit men who are allowed to commit murder in certain situations.

On your last point, I totally agree.
 
avalon said:
In that case the person who was killed is not innocent if he/she was psychologically abusive.

It seems to me that any comparisons to self defense are flawed in that the person that killed in self defense is generally the one that was the subject of abuse. There aren't legally sanctioned hit men who are allowed to commit murder in certain situations.

On your last point, I totally agree.
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I agree it's not a perfect analogy. But the woman who was raped was/is also subject to abuse. In a way, she's being allowed to kill one of her abusers. This abuser doesn't have the intent to abuse, but traditional self defense law doesn't require the deceased to have the intent to kill either.
 
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This is funny. Another Missouri Senate poll came out today done by PPP (a Dem pollster) showing McCaskill up by 1%. Time for Rasmussen to do another poll showing McCaskill up 10%.
 
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