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Alabama legislators don't support rape victims. We assume it's because they're like a certain Lauderdale County resident who once said he knew it existed, but he didn't want to have to look at the results. Nice guy, huh?
The two victims we're posting about today are from California, but they could just as easily have been from Alabama. On the night of April 6th, a woman who had just moved to Venice Beach that day was beaten and raped as she stepped outside to look at the scenery by the canals. We aren't going to picture her wounds since, after six weeks in a coma, she died.
After the homeless alcoholic raped and beat his now deceased victim at around 9:30 p.m., he attacked a second victim at 10:30. Her name is Mary Klein, and she's the woman whose photos we're posting.
Mary is 54 and was employed as a caregiver for an elderly woman with ALS. On the night of April 6th, she finished her shift at 10:00 and began to walk home to the small apartment she shared with her cat.
Legislators, please note that Ms. Klein wasn't coming back from a club wearing scant clothing. She was returning from her JOB, doing all that she could to be a good citizen. Just thirty minutes after she finished her shift, her life changed forever.
If you look at the left side of this photo on the screen, you can see the wire physicians used to repair her jaw. Her attacker, who was arrested a week later, was charged with forcible rape, torture, attempted murder, mayhem, sexual penetration by use of force, and sodomy by use of force (he used the empty whiskey bottle he was carrying to penetrate his helpless victim).
Now let's suppose that Ms. Klein was not 54, but 34 or 44. If she had become pregnant, would it in any way have been her fault? Yet she wouldn't have been allowed an induced abortion in this state.
No, because of her pregnancy and other injuries, Klein wouldn't have been able to return to her job, but apparently the Alabama Legislature doesn't care about that. They "care" enough about Alabamians to say they don't have to take vaccines that could save their life and the lives of others, but they don't care about a woman who has been raped and beaten within an inch of her life.
There's something very wrong in this state, and, make no mistake, God is not pleased with those who make the innocent suffer...
I'm all for following Louisiana's lead as punushment for rape: physical castration. If it's rape of a child; death penalty.
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DeleteBut what about Mary? Deflect, deflect. And inflict as much pain as possible by forcing Mary to carry to term the spawn of this nightmare. That is the problem with the rabid rightwing position. Make sure both the guilty and the innocent suffer.
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DeletePlease elaborate on exactly 'how' any 'deflection' occurred. I'll wait...
DeleteIn this case and other cases of rape the victims would have been given the "morning after" pill that prevents pregnancy from occurring. Not like the left likes to do, let the baby be killed during delivery.
DeleteIn this case, yes. In cases of much younger victims who are afraid to tell, no. And that is assuming that Plan B remains available...and works.
DeleteThe younger ones are the ones that are savvy about this pill and know exactly how to purchase it. No age required, no ID required, OTC.
DeleteWe were thinking about the 12, 13, 14 year old girls who don't tell their families what was done to them.
DeleteThen obviously they are taken care of in other ways.
DeleteWhat ways? Having to drive out of state? There's no exception for rape in Alabama, that's the point.
DeleteThe law is not black and white, there are grey areas. One exception, the health of the woman/girl. The reason would have to be a bit more than "being pregnant makes me sad", so a woman can kill the baby at any stage. I'd say a young girl being pregnant from rape would qualify for a danger to her health, mentally and physically but, again, grey areas. How far along is the young girl when the pregnancy is discovered? What about the trauma to her of killing a baby that the girl knows is alive and viable? Convince me that trauma would be more acceptable than delivering the baby and putting it up for adoption. There is no escaping the trauma the girl goes through, no matter what happens. Too, why can't young girls be advised on what to do and who they can go too for help and counseling if they are raped and afraid to speak out for whatever reason?
DeleteWhile no one here has ever had an induced abortion, no one we know who has was sad over the fact. The female's health is always more important than that of a child who could turn out to be a serial killer.
DeleteI guess it wasn't clear. The excuse "being pregnant makes me sad" is an example of a weak as water excuse to kill her child and should never be accepted. In other words, actual threats to the health of a woman or girl should decide. What an odd comment about the child turning out to be a serial killer! Any child can turn out that way, even one loved and wanted at birth.
DeleteI might add, in my professional life I saw many women that had abortions, and I knew plenty, too many, that were sad over their choice with some saying doing it gave them regrets they never got over. Having an abortion should be given a little more thought than the way you want to wear your hair.
DeleteThen they would of course have medical care.
ReplyDeleteToo many people view abortion as 'just another form of birth control'.
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