Today’s outrage is courtesy of Kansas State Rep Pete DeGraf who has equated becoming pregnant from rape with having a flat tire. How so? Well, apparently women should ‘prepare’ for this eventuality by having a ‘rape-abortion’ fund so that the taxpayers are not burdened with the cost.
Rep. DeGraf is a first term (and hopefully last term – don’t let us down Kansas!) Republican who is also an Associate Pastor at his church. Could someone refresh me on the passage in the New Testament where Jesus tells the ladies to save up for an abortion in case they’re raped?
Look, I get that people are against abortion. I used to work at an abortion clinic, I ran a gauntlet of pictures of aborted fetuses on my way into work. And I get that people don’t like their taxes to pay for things they disagree with (like this jackhole’s salary). What I don’t understand is why someone would feel compelled to minimize a devastating crime, compounded in some instances by pregnancy, with such an obnoxious, dismissive and offensive metaphor. All it serves to do is expose the anti abortion movement as as much, if not more, anti-woman and anti-poors than anti-abortion.
But the overriding reason why I find this enraging is that I don’t want to live in a word where I need to plan on getting raped.
