[Vision2020] Say What?

[keely emerinemix]

The correct reason why Sen. Winder is left to "assume that's part of the counseling that goes on" is that the verbal discourse between the woman and her doctor is none of his business, and neither is the volitionality of the sexual intercourse that resulted in the pregnancy.  Our inability to assume something that's none of our effing business probably is a good reason for butting out.

I thank God my rape 30 years ago didn't result in pregnancy, but the event was sufficiently traumatic that I believe I can confidently assert that Winder hasn't any idea how utterly horrifying it would be to have a doctor insist that a woman describe and compare her "normal relations" in marriage to the violence inflicted upon her in rape.  But I don't think it's at all necessary to be a woman or a rape survivor to come to that conclusion.  It only requires that both mind and heart are working in concert, something the Idaho and national GOP doesn't seem able to manage.  Until they can, could they do us all a favor and shut up, then, about women's health issues?

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com


> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:04:57 -0700
> To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
> 
> “Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this. I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that's part of the counseling that goes on.”
> 
> - Idaho State Senator Chuck Winder (R-Boise) (March 19, 2012)
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> Courtesy of ABC News at:
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/t/story/idaho-lawmaker-sparks-anger-abortion-comments-15964865
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> Query for Mr. [Henry D. "Hank"] Johnston:  Sufficient citation?
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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> If not now, when?"
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