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The incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), whose measure banning abortions after 20 weeks was being considered in the House Judiciary Committee, argued against a Democratic amendment to make exceptions for rape and incest by suggesting that pregnancy from rape is rare. - The Washington Post

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Melissa Harris-Perry: My open letter to the Steubenville survivor

It could lead to the imprisonment of the man, where in reality he is exercising the least of his marital rights.” - Sheik Ahmad Al-Kurdi, Sunni religious court judge, on criminalizing marital rape.

Lebanese women take on Muslim judges who call rape a ‘marital right’ - CNN.com

Nearly one in three Native American women have been raped in their lifetime. - @frontlinepbs

Read: Frontline

Go to the 1:30 mark for the most batshit thing you’ll hear tonight.

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Dr Willke, a prominent anti-abortion campaigner, claims to be an authority on the theory espoused by Mr Akin that victims of what the Republican congressman called “legitimate rape” do not become pregnant because their bodies “shut down” due to the trauma. …

Dr Willke told The Daily Telegraph that he did meet Mr Romney during a presidential primary campaign stop in the doctor’s home city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in October last year. Local news reports at the time noted that the candidate held “private meetings” during the visit.

Read: The Telegraph

Crossroads pulls out of Missouri after Akin comments - POLITICO →

The conservative outside-spending powerhouse Crossroads GPS is pulling its ads from the Missouri Senate race, three sources confirmed to POLITICO.

The group had originally booked a new round of ads to start Wednesday but began canceling them earlier today. The decision comes in the wake of comments by Missouri Rep. and GOP Senate nominee Todd Akin questioning how often women can get pregnant from “legitimate rape.”

Contacted about the decision to withdraw its resources from Missouri, Crossroads spokesman Nate Hodson responded: “The act speaks for itself.”

A Closer Look at Louis CK's Shocking Rape Scene - AlterNet →

Everyone is freaking out, because most of the pilot is about rape,” our source says.

Producers Scramble To Take “Rape” Out Of Tosh.O Premiere

Read: RumorFix

I actually agree with Daniel Tosh’s sentiment in his shitty back-pedaling tweet (“The point I was making before I was heckled is there are awful things in the world but you can still make jokes about them #deadbabies”). The world is full of terrible things, including rape, and it is okay to joke about them. But the best comics use their art to call bullshit on those terrible parts of life and make them better, not worse. The key—unless you want to be called a garbage-flavored dick on the internet by me and other humans with souls and brains—is to be a responsible person when you construct your jokes.

Lindy West, How to Make a Rape Joke

Read: Jezebel

It is an important thing to instill in a younger generation about the impact of rape, the lasting impact of rape. Children from grade school to high school to college are incredibly susceptible and incredibly malleable, as we all know. To get them early, to teach them about the facts and figures and other realities of rape is key. It is an important issue to me as not only a man, but as an educator, as a human being and as a person on this planet.

Jon Hamm: Hollywood Feminist of the Day

*swoon*

(via ryeisenberg)

A rising group of advocates for rape victims has taken to the streets to try to take the stigma off women who’ve been sexually assaulted.

A series of protests known as “SlutWalks” have spread across the world to bring attention to “slut shaming” - or blaming the victims for being raped.

Continue reading… NYDailynews

Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo.

Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack lasted for about 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men. Ms. Logan, who returned to work this month, is expected to speak at length about the assault on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.

Lara Logan told the NYT about her experience in detail. She will be on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. - @brianstelter