Rape babies are a gift from his god, says Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock.
I would love for Mourdock to be allowed to experience this particular gift from his god. How pure and exquisite would that be?
Aue for Richard, it may also involve being betrayed (if he knew his attacker, which would be statistically likely), pummelled like a sandbag, held down, verbally abused, having his face spat in, and then the attacker's erect penis being forced up him and banged in and out of his body until his attacker ejaculates, and within the next few hours (praise the lord) Mourdock is impregnated from his attacker's still-present sperm. Phew.
But still. What a pure gift! From such a loving god.
There are many, many reasons why I abhor religion, and the way it twists people into trying to control others and prescribe rights and privileges and rules. Yet another! Stop! My material-for-being-scathing-about-religion-bank is overflowing!
Old white religious men - because mostly this is who is attempting it in the US and here - simply should not be the ones to legislate about whether or not women should have medical treatment to prevent growing a foetus inside them which was conceived through sick attacks. Right? Right.
So, to be completely practical, unless people like Richard Mourdock and his peers can show beyond doubt that their house is seething with children they have adopted from would-be mothers impregnanted by brother/uncle/father/psychopathic stranger, they shouldn't be commenting in the public sphere about rape/incest-related abortion at all. And even then, perhaps they should keep their mouths closed and let those who it directly effects be the ones to discuss what they need.
I flopped about in paroxysms when I saw Justin Bieber in Rolling Stone saying "that's really sad, but, you know, these things happen for a reason" when questioned on why he didn't support abortion in cases of incest or rape. Turns out they left out part of the quote, and he said he wouldn't be able to say because he hasn't been in that position (no!) but still, that god-controls-everything crap is barging on into his psyche like it owns the place.
Rape. Not only does it happen for a reason, it's now a gift.
But Bieber is a wet-behind-the-ears young thing who, for practical purposes, we shall consider profoundly uneducated, while Mourdock has simply been around long enough to know better.
Perhaps some people who feel sentimental about clumps of cells in a swollen uterus agree with him.
But the personal stories of abortion on the imnotsorry.net website are teeming with tales of violence, coercion, betrayal, assault, and gifts from god quite simply, the savage rape of live, adult human beings. And they're not sorry or sentimental about their abortions. They just pleased they could prevent their entire lives being ruined from rape and/or incest. They simply didn't want a child, and should not have been forced to have one.
What a sick abuse if, like Mourdock apparently wants, they had been legally required to. (Apologies for the dangling participle, but I like it.)
In my teaching career, I have seen hundreds of unwanted children in poor families, and they very often grow into unwanted adults. It's a dangerous, frightening thing to have a surplus of.
And isn't it endlessly strange that people who are treated as leaders not only think we need even more unwelcomed, rejected people in the world, but actually publicly strive to make it happen?
