Redefining Rape

[vdansk]

Some of you may have heard about this on Facebook or by email alerts. For those who haven't--there is a proposed bill that would deny Medicare coverage for rape victims whose rapes were not sufficiently violent.

As examples? A nineteen year old college student who was drugged, then raped and sodomized by four football players. A woman who let a "friend" crash on her couch, and woke up during the middle of her own rape. A thirteen year old pressured into sex by an adult she trusted.

All of these--and sadly, these examples are all people I have known--would not qualify under the proposed bill as "truly" rape. No broken bones, no lethal force. Just shattered lives.

http://pol.moveon.org/smithbill/?temp9

or

http://tigerbeatdown.com/2011/01/29/dearjohn-for-when-boehner-decides-your-rape-just-wasnt-enough/

if you want to learn more or to have an easy way to protest this.

Comments

[white-and-nrdy.livejournal.com]

It takes a WHOLE lot to get me angry. This bill has gotten me instantly angry from the first moment I heard about it.

[chryssalys]

We here are both apalled at this and have sent in letters of protest already.

Also, it includes people who are mentally challenged as not being "violent" rape.

Grrrrrrrr.

[chryssalys]

And sometimes I can spell... *appalled*

[aerden.livejournal.com]

If this is just a proposed bill--a lot of proposed bills never even make it out of committee, I'd hope this would be one of them.. Thanks for the links. I want to read more on this.

Chantal