Military rape victims denied abortion coverage

People often ask me how I put up with doing sexual violence research.

Yes, it happened once, a week before I submitted my Master’s dissertation (on recovery from sexual abuse), that I felt I couldn’t read any more incest stories, so I closed the booked, decided my dissertation was finished, printed and submitted it.

It’s shocking and disappointing to say, however, that it is not the sexual violence stories themselves that bother me – it’s what goes on in society in response to sexual violence that makes my blood boil. Which simply fuels my motivation for continuing doing research on the topic of sexual violence.

‘The Senate decided last week to keep in place a policy that denies abortion coverage for military rape victims who became pregnant as a result of their sexual assault’.

Conservative Women’s Group Applauds Senate Decision To Deny Military Rape Victims Abortion Coverage

 

‘Abstinence-only, contraception-hostile CWA are big proponents of the purity myth that reduces a woman’s value to the number of penises that have touched her vagina. Your average service woman suffering a rape has probably had consensual sex outside of marriage before, so in the eyes of CWA she was already worthless. But even if not, the rape renders her not-a-virgin by their strict accounting, terminating any moral value she has

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Of course CWA sees no reason not to force them to bear a rapist’s child. Unless you can find the “cure-all” of going back in time and un-raping the victim, she has no value and deserves no real care, in their blatant estimation.’

Concerned Women for America’s Condescending Treatment of Our Female Troops