Chuck Winder: Rape Apologist

First in the hot seat is State Senator Chuck Winder of Idaho

Just before the Idaho Senate voted on the Winder-sponsored bill S. 1387, Winder suggested women might claim rape in order to obtain an abortion-- and more, that they might not know when they've been raped.

Winder's bill will require women seeking an abortion-- including women who are victims of rape or incest or who have a medical emergency-- to first have two ultrasounds. Women in their first trimester will be required to have an invasive transvaginal ultrasound and listen to a doctor's graphic description of the fetus.

Winder said:

Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this. I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape.

 This is unbelievable. Winder first insults and demeans women by insinuating they are liars and then justifies marital rape

In many cultures, and sometimes still today in our own, marital rape is overlooked, ignored, or justified as the husband's right. Winder's words are beyond brutish.

In The Daily Koss today, Mostly Musician wrote:

Really? Seriously? Does he honestly believe a woman, who has gone through the gut-wrenching, emotional, spiritual turmoil to come to the decision to have an abortion would also want to "fake," "lie," or "pretend" that she had also been violently, physically, sexually, mentally, and emotionally violated by some misogynist poor excuse for humanity so she could could subject herself not only to the guilt, pain, and shame many will heap upon her (in 2012?) for the abortion, but also for the "perceived rape or incest?" 

Does he not know how difficult it is even in 2012 for a woman to come forward about being raped BECAUSE idiots like him think they are making it up?

And he thinks we're too stupid to know the difference between a loving, sexual act and a violent, physical assault? I can't believe there are still idiots who believe that. I guess date rape, and marital rape, and incest don't exist either.

She says it better than I could.

The sad thing is Winder is but one small cog in a Republican machine that is seeking-- and succeeding-- to undo decades of slow progress in women's rights by passing draconian state laws place embarrassing and noxious roadblocks between women and medical treatment.

There's nothing to say about a political party that is doing such a thing other than this: They're bullies.

Source:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/20/chuck-winder-rape-abortions_n_1366994.html