Anti-abortion leader faces criticism after comparing rape to car accidents

[The Straight Story]

Right to Life president Barbara Listing said Wednesday that women should purchase additional health insurance if they feared being raped, because the sexual crime was like a car accident.

“Nobody plans to have an accident in a car accident, nobody plans to have their homes flooded. You have to buy extra insurance for those,” she told reporters.

Michigan’s Board of State Canvassers on Wednesday approved a ballot petition that seeks to prohibit health insurance companies from covering abortion procedures, even in cases of rape or incest. The initiative would require abortion coverage to be purchased as a separate rider.

If the activist collect signatures from 3.48 percent of all registered voters in the state, lawmakers can adopt the initiative without a signature from Gov. Rick Snyder. The Republican governor vetoed a similar proposal last year.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/22/anti-abortion-leader-faces-criticism-after-comparing-rape-to-car-accidents/

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Now I have heard it all!

God, give me strength.

[darkangel218]

2. WTF is wrong with these people??

[etherealtruth]

4. Try living here

The insane took over our government ... we voted for Obama, but elected the craziest right-wing nut jobs to our state goverment

[Initech]

12. "Pro lifers" are incredibly deranged people.

Not to mention hypocrites of the highest caliber (which Jesus himself would have hated) - they claim to speak of being "pro life" but actively cheer on war and executions. They are sick.

[darkangel218]

13. Youre right, theyre sick bastards.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

[gopiscrap]

3. fucking asswipe

[salin]

5. Once again, it isn't a real issue (to be dealt with) it is the victim's responsibility

which is clearly asserted: Get insurance. How cares that you are a victim - your problem to solve: get insurance. And if you are a survivor - it is your fault if you have challenges after you were raped - if you didn't get "rape" insurance (does such a thing exist?)



A two-for-one insult to rape survivors: The solution is solely on you - the responsibility for action of the person who raped you is absolved, *and* if you suffer from after effects from the trauma - it is also you fault because you didn't have insurance.

Ye Gads!

[hamsterjill]

10. Exactly!

Because, of course, any woman who gets raped was asking for it either by the way she dressed, where she was, how she acted, etc. That's what these idiots really believe. That rape doesn't happen to "good girls" and while I would not wish rape on anyone, being raped themselves would be the only way their mindset might be changed.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. And what will the said insurance cover?...

I can guarantee they wouldn't let it cover abortions.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Yes, because an 11 yr old raped by her stepfather can foresee she'll need a separate insurance rider

to cover her care...

I know, I know, a special case. Doesn't matter though does it? NOBODY expects to be a victim... until they are.

Disgusting, despicable proposal. Shameful.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. wow

[alp227]

8. Rape culture exists.

Todd Akin, Barbara Listing, trash websites like A Voice for Men...all are in the rape denial/apologetics industry...no reasoning with them our their followers.

[dobleremolque]

9. Hey, I'd sell Barbara Listing rape insurance....

I'd just have to have my underwriters and actuaries go through her closet, because the premium would have to go up if she own any slutty clothes. </snark off>

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. Car insurance isn't for yourself.

We make people buy car insurance so that they can pay if they injure someone else, not so that they can take care of themselves.

[RILib]

15. I'm not planning to get cancer, do I need to buy extra insurance in case I do?

[MisterP]

16. this is what happens when a Republican listens to "Warm Leatherette" 3 hours straight

[tanyev]

17. So she's OK with all women of childbearing age being able to purchase Plan B--no questions asked?

'Cause that's one way to plan ahead.

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. Next women will have to wear burquas.

Since our very existence seems to drive men into a sexual frenzy where they simply cannot control their urge to rape anything female.

Therefore our existence is the cause of rape and we simply are responsible for ourselves if we are attacked.

So it is the duty of all women young and old to completely cover ourselves in layers of black so that not even our eyes are showing.

That is kind of what a lot of women in far right wing religions do now - scarves and long sleeves and long skirts and very sensible shoes.

[TxDemChem]

19. This shit pisses me off

Although I do not like to mention the subject, some days I feel like I have to bring these MFs back to reality. I was raped and conceived my now 15 year old daughter. I was raped in a church at the age of 14. Now this bitch can go and tell every church that they need to get rape insurance! If not, women like me will sue the church into bankruptcy. How does she like them apples?

[MrModerate]

20. How crazy is it that 3.48 of the electorate . . .

Abetted by the legislature, can create entirely new law?

[gopiscrap]

21. What a fucking heartless piece of shit

and hypocritical. These folks pass themselves off as Christians...fundamentalist Christianity is not much different than fundamentalist thoughts of other faith strains....CRAZY

[blkmusclmachine]

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