Posted: May 5, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Rehberg: Drugging a Woman and Then Having Sex With Her Unconscious Body Ain’t Rape
Congressman Rehberg’s assault on women reached a new low this week when he voted to prevent the following situations from “counting” as rape: women who are drugged or verbally threatened and raped, minors impregnated by adults, and women who say no but do not physically fight off the perpetrator for fear of being murdered.
Mother Jones via Think Progress reports that
House Republicans used “a sly legislative maneuver” to insert a “backdoor reintroduction” of the language narrowing the definition of what counts as rape. Essentially, if the bill is challenged in court, judges will look at the congressional committee report to determine intent. The committee report for H.R. 3 says the bill will “not allow the Federal Government to subsidize abortions in cases of statutory rape”…
— thus excluding abortions for women who were raped in these circumstances (drugged and unconscious, 13 year old girls impregnated by 55 year old pervs, and women who keep still for fear of being murdered) from Medicaid coverage.
This is the same @*$(!& who was busted pretending to support breast cancer awareness while voting to end mammogram coverage, who opposes equal pay for women–the guy even flipped off a pregnant constituent. I’m sure the Montana papers won’t have anything to say about this. Happy Mothers Day ladies!
How can you claim to be a champion of Christianity and vote for this bill to allow for raping women when they are druged?
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/150850/rape_in_high_places%3A_is_there_an_increase_in_high-status_men_assaulting_women/?page=entire
Women are’nt human to them, we’re property,
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/redefine-rape-hr-3-abortion-stealth
The pendulum swings; but never rests. Those looking for perfect justice must be inevitably disappointed.
Oh bullsh*t, Jed. This is NOT your daddy’s Republican party! These guys are NAZIS! Not pretend nazis, but the real thing. Sorry, but the John Birch Society is NOT what America’s all about. And the Pubbies have embraced these nazis in a bear hug! There’s no daylight between’em. And THAT is different from the past. In the old days, you could be a Republican and still be respectable. But no more. If you claim to be a Pubbie today, you’re simply an unAmerican nazi oathkeeper, teabagger, inbred Ahole like Dopey Reeburp and his Teawanker pals. The pendulum has NEVER swung that far to the right before in this country. See the Pubbie/nazi candidates’ forum below. Real nice folks, huh?
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/05/gop-debate-oathkeepers-birchers/
Sorry lapdog.
It appears your problem is no longer liquor so much as maybe too much of it has eaten away your thinker.
Definitions of rape are what ol’ jed was writing about.
I am never certain whether I am more sympathetic with a young woman who has been roofied–or with a seventeen year old boy who is sent up the river for having sex with his sixteen year old girlfriend.
Your job as a citizen, Larry, is to think and be vigilant. Falling for the old good cop bad cop routine is neither.
Some come here to be vigilant and think
Some come here to be flatulent and stink
And some even come to read words written well
And others just curious about Mark’s latest smell!
Mark, you’re a funny dude. But I did like your Mormom piece over at your site. It was well-written and right on. WRITE ON! You write very well when not being a smug, arrogant a**hole as that Mormom dude said. I’ll let others trained in the area of PSYCHO-ology try to figure you out. I don’t have time. You seem to have some serious issues that should be dealt with. But HEY, have a nice day! And remember, Jesus loves you!
You are rather pointless to deal with, but you do offer up opinons that pass for thoughtful, given that they are group thought. You’ll always have those who agree with you, and you’ll never understand me. This is not my problem.
People with whom we agree have opinions. Those with whom we disagree are opinionated.
I’ve never understood the meaning of the word “opinionated,” but do know what it is like to have opinions that differ from the mainstream, and so must be that.
I like your blog too Mark. But after reading it I just can’t help but come to the conclusion that you equate ‘to think and be vigilant’ with ‘see a grand conspiracy in everything’. What is your evidence or explanation for why you believe the killing of Bin Laden was a hoax? How deep does the conspiracy go? Are you a 9/11 inside job believer as well? It seems to me you wait to see what position the govt stakes out on a particular issue and by default you will take the opposite..as when you wrote that Obama was shamefully ‘abandoning the Libyan rebels’ but after the US gov got involved then it clearly became a conspiracy (for domination of some sort I presume). Don’t get me wrong I love a good conspiracy theory myself. I want to hear your conspiracy theory about the Bin laden killing hoax.
The evidence of bin Laden’s death is, as you might well understand, circumstantial. I can write more about it, as there are some things that might startle you – voice analyses that say that the only true match to the bin Laden voice, of all of the statements he has made since 9/11 is the one in December of 2001.
But it first helps to disabuse you of conspiracy talk, as if being suspicious of official truth was the problem, and believing it not. That’s muddled, but set it aside Instead, stop pretending that your opinion matters, and understand that public opinion is neither heeded nor considers as the government makes policy. You are to mind your business, and to the extent that you have an opinion, it will be furnished for you.
Perhaps it helps to think of it as grown ups and children. guess which slot you fill.
By the way, I catch he’ll for such talk, in that everyone likes to imagine that they think things through and have arrived at their opinions without outside influence. I don’t have time or such nonsense, abut mean no disrespect towards you personally. So don’t get all bent out of shape.
Nice! This is good stuff I see you have been busy. Im not bent out of shape at all and it wasn’t my intent to bend you out of shape so there is no need to send me your passive aggressive insults.
I’ll go to your blog to discuss though instead of hijacking the dem’s blog.
Convicted felons tend toward anarchy as a reaction to being disenfranchised. Is that your case, Mr. Tokarski?
That’s a bit hard to fathom. It merely helps that I have Been self- employed for 26 years, and so have had time to read and think on my own without having to look up the food chain for acceptable opinions. I have what everyone claims to want – freedom, and it does lead me to think outside the mainstream. It does not make me wrong. But enough about me. What do you bring to the table? Do you have a non-conforming opinion of any kind?
I was radicalized by Bush v. Gore and won’t stop beating up on The Right’s commitment to red state failure until the States are either black or blue.
One current obsession is to change the name of Custer National Forest to something less offensive. Any ideas?
I like that word “radicalized,” as outside this country it is known as “mainstream.” Amazing that in a land of free speech and thinking that we get so little of either. Take this site, for instance (please!).
I don’t much care about names of things – some are pretty. If natives find “squaw” offensive, stop using it. Show some respect. Custer lost, and generally losers don’t have streets named after them, so let’s stick with the precedent and name the forest after the winner of that battle.
But honestly, I don’t care. In Glacier Nat’l Park there is “Lake McDonald” (but no lake Taco Bell!), and the natives called it “dancing Waters.” Just for the sake of beautiful images, we should rename that too.
Non-men, according to Republicans, exist to bear their children and submit to their will and their desire. Non-men have no status among Republicans. How a non-man could ever vote Republican is beyond me but I guess those non-men are well trained to submit.
But then there’s Denny’s pick for president, an non-man non-women
http://www.dumpbachmann.com/2011/05/bachmann-is-getting-god-to-pick-her.html
I don’t know how he did it, but miraculously, the Governor was able to save Montana’s family planning funds – the legisalture had stripped them out.
Good letter to editor re Denny
http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_05de06b0-77ed-11e0-9435-001cc4c03286.html
Maybe also they won’t call it Rape if the act performed on a Montana lake, in a speedboat at high rate of speed?? What are they ‘thinking’?????
“Drugging a woman and then having sex with her unconscious body?”
My liberal friends! Show some compassion. This is the only way Republican men can get laid.
@tokarski: who made these supposed “voice analyses”
Swiss Dolle Malle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 2007.
@tokarski: there are 10 google returns for “swiss malle institute”, all of which are your own blog or this one. It doesn’t really appear to exist.
He just spelled it wrong. It does exist. Its Dalle Molle.
http://www.idsia.ch/
It’s there. Not up to me to find it for you. Be a good citizen, do your homework.
I need clarification on the rape issue. The act Rehberg and the other Republicans passed denies gov’t assistance to pregnant rape victims who don’t fight off their rapists, right? Does this mean that impregnated rape victims who fight off their rapists tooth and nail get gov’t assistance?
If so, how does this jibe with the Hyde Act?
Turner- u are correct. The Hyde amendment says aid for women seeking abortion is prohibited unless they were victims of a crime–rape or incest. So they decided to narrow the definition of rape so that we would help fewer women.