re: #69 jackw33

How stupid can liberal women be that after being pregnant for 20 weeks they can’t yet decide if they’re going to keep the end product of their rape or incestuous relationship?

Here’s a serious answer, even though you’re clearly not looking for them.

Many women, after rape, especially after incest, have a truamatic avoidance reaction. They don’t want to deal with what’s just happened to them, especially since most rapes come from people they know. Especially since there’s generally no legal recourse— most rapes don’t have enough evidence for a conviction, and only between two and eight rapists out of a hundred ever go to jail— a lot of women are overcome with a feeling of hopelessness.

Scheduling an abortion, especially in a GOP-controlled state, is hard. There are often not many doctors around who do them, the scheduled are often booked, and the GOP has enacted laws purposefully to make it take longer and be harder for a woman to get to the doctor, for the doctor to have a clinic that can provide the care, etc. Things like requiring two separate appointments separated by 24 hours mean that if the woman is poverty-level, that’s a very large economic burden on her if the doctor is any distance away.

And of course it’s not just liberal women who get abortions, but you were just trolling with that.

So there, an honest answer to your dishonest question, because the underlying concept does seem to escape a lot of people. Some women immediately seek contraception after rape— some want, need to shut themselves mentally off from what happened to them.