Protecting the Rights of Victims of Rape and Incest: A Professional Opinion to Challenge Discussion by Scott A Johnson in JFSCI - Juniper Publishers
As I watched a news program one night I was appalled by the republicans push to end funding for the victims of rape or incest to obtain an abortion. For female victims unable to afford an abortion, public funding is planned to be cut and there has been a constant push to illegalize abortion in general. Women who can financially afford an abortion would not likely be impacted if public funding is withheld. However, women without financial means would be revictimized by being forced to either carry the child to term or terminate with less legal and less medically safe procedures. Of course the republicans pushing for these changes are almost exclusively men. Remember when Dick Cheney was anti-homosexuality until of course his daughters publically announced their homosexuality? Perhaps if more right wing and conservative families experienced rape and incest more often and more publically, then the push to prevent victims from public funding for the option of abortion.
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