Do you know someone who has been raped? If you do, were you the first person they told? How long did it take for them to tell you? Final question, could you tell me they had been assaulted? Maybe they couldn’t even tell you because they were too young and couldn’t put into words the horror they experienced?

            I watched a pretty sickening, dehumanizing argument from a forced birther. In his supposed argument, since you can’t tell a rape baby from an ultrasound, that means that you can’t allow rape as an exception.

            The earlier questions challenge you to realize how stupid it is to base something entirely off looks. Not to mention in this extremely ignorant argument, fetuses do not float in space and should not be looked at as separate from the human who carries them.

            Many people like to act as if rape should just be accepted, and though horrible, a rapist gets a free pass. After all he gives forced birthers what they want, while forced birthers can be hypocritical and talk about their morality, when they sacrifice nothing. The rape victim does, she sacrifices her mind and body for everyone else, including a fetus she is then forced to feed and never had a choice in its creation at any point.

            Obviously, that won’t show up when you only look at an ultrasound. The people who use this argument or line of reasoning also sacrifice nothing. They erase a whole human being, while trying to act as if the fetus is somehow a being on its own. They turn around and say they love humans as they erase the one who disagrees from the picture.

            In Iowa, they support rapists and rape culture, by only allowing 45 days. Many women who have been sexually assaulted don’t tell someone right away. It might be because of fear, lack of education, no contact with other people they trust, age, or shame. That’s the kind of culture prolife supports.

Sadly, many states take it farther and use rape as a tool to use and abuse it populace since there is no exception It has no understanding of trauma, human emotion, or sacrifice. If you would like to educate yourself and actually help your family, a good resource is https://www.wcsap.org/help/about-sexual-assault/effects-sexual-assault

            If you read those signs, do you think someone is going to be able to report in 45 days? Would they want to report at all with the scrutiny, hate, and attacks instigated by the ignorant forced birthers? Fear and ignorance are the culture of forced birthers. Support the victim not the far right.