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February 3, 2011

New House Republicans work to take away funding + abortions from Rape Victims.

Rape Rape.

Redefining “rape”? Leave it to the Grand Old Boy’s Club Party.

Mother Jones‘ Nick Baumann reports:

With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Republicans propose that the rape exemption be limited to “forcible rape.” This would rule out federal assistance for abortions in many rape cases, including instances of statutory rape, many of which are non-forcible. For example: If a 13-year-old girl is impregnated by a 24-year-old adult, she would no longer qualify to have Medicaid pay for an abortion. (Smith’s spokesman did not respond to a call and an email requesting comment.)

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Other types of rapes that would no longer be covered by the exemption include rapes in which the woman was drugged or given excessive amounts of alcohol, rapes of women with limited mental capacity, and many date rapes.

I’ve been reading about this for days on Gawker (props to them for their extensive coverage).

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