State Rep Wants to Name Highway After Doc Who Claimed Rape Victims Don’t Get Pregnant
An Ohio state representative intends to introduce legislation to name a highway after a doctor who popularized the idiotic theory that victims of rape don’t get pregnant.
Dr. Jack Willke, founder of Cincinnati Right to Life, was best known as the purveyor of that odious falsehood, and now state Rep. Jim Buchy, R-Greenville, wants to name a portion of Ohio state Rt. 119 after him. Willke died in February 2015.
Willke wrote a book in 1971 called “Why Can’t We Love Them Both: Questions and Answers About Abortion,” in which he claimed women rarely get pregnant as a result of rape because the emotional trauma makes a woman’s fallopian tubes “tight.” He doubled down on those fatuous claims as recently as 2012 in an interview with the L.A. Times.
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