Fear of reprisal, not wanting to get the offender in trouble or a belief that law enforcement would not help matters prevented most victims of rape from reporting what happened to them, the federal report said.
What’s happening is that people who are experiencing rape are not being allowed to choose abortion,”
“Highly stigmatized life events are hard to measure. And many survivors of sexual violence do not want to disclose that they went through this incredibly stigmatizing traumatic life event,”
Even in states with exceptions for rape, very few people got an abortion—likely because of fear and intimidation, Dickman speculates.
People who have been raped – could be too intimidated, but that doesn’t speak for those who haven’t.
I know that the “false accusation” crowd is vastly overexaggerated, but if you HAD to report a rape to get access to an abortion when you needed one, it could actually cause motivation for it, too.
And then that circles back, people assuming that when you’re reporting a rape it might be a false accusation because you want an abortion.
The only issue I have with that is how this accuses victims without much evidence and distracts from the major harm of these policies. But besides that, yeah, it creates that incentive even if the victims tend not to take advantage and erodes the credibility of victims. It’s so messed up.
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Yeah, it seems to be quite the opposite if I’m reading this correctly. The only ones hurt by the exceptions are the victims themselves, as always.
I would use a penname if it were my job to write about that kind of stuff…
Lamo that’s the real name
That’s pretty much what I expected.
Why not both?
People who have been raped – could be too intimidated, but that doesn’t speak for those who haven’t.
I know that the “false accusation” crowd is vastly overexaggerated, but if you HAD to report a rape to get access to an abortion when you needed one, it could actually cause motivation for it, too.
And then that circles back, people assuming that when you’re reporting a rape it might be a false accusation because you want an abortion.
The only issue I have with that is how this accuses victims without much evidence and distracts from the major harm of these policies. But besides that, yeah, it creates that incentive even if the victims tend not to take advantage and erodes the credibility of victims. It’s so messed up.