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LovingA2andMI

(7,006 posts)
Thu Dec 12, 2013, 05:33 AM Dec 2013

Michigan Women: Time To Wake Up, Turn Off The TV & Pay Attention - Rape Insurance Now Law

Last edited Thu Dec 12, 2013, 10:48 PM - Edit history (1)

"Insult is not the right word. Cruel and unusual punishment for being born, raised on living in Michigan with a Vagina is more like it."

For the twelve year old girl who is a victim of incest. Or the twenty-one year old young Woman raped after a predator slipped "Mickey" in her drink at a college party. What about the thirty-five year old victim of a criminal released from Michigan Department of Corrections custody who broke into her home to burglarize and control his victim by non-consensual sex.

Real life terms are necessary because all of the above described events of violence happen in Michigan. Our state is not a island among itself. Crimes occur in the Great Lakes State. Statistically females are 1 times out of 6 more likely to be victims in crimes involving rape or non-consensual sex.

Yet, on Wednesday, December 11, by a decision made by less than 4% of Michigan's 7 million residents and a majority of Republican legislative officials, as a Woman or Girl Michigander if you're impregnated as an act of violence, you might be FORCED to have the fetus.

Read more: http://bit.ly/1d97oxF

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Michigan Women: Time To Wake Up, Turn Off The TV & Pay Attention - Rape Insurance Now Law (Original Post) LovingA2andMI Dec 2013 OP
Dear Lord... n/t Prophet 451 Dec 2013 #1
No way this is legal. IdaBriggs Dec 2013 #2
 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
2. No way this is legal.
Thu Dec 12, 2013, 09:39 AM
Dec 2013

Does it mean you aren't being "forced" to have the baby; it means you have to pay the medical bills out-of-pocket?

If not, and all we need to pass a law are a quarter of a million signatures, how about one where all gun owners have to pay for extra insurance? Or that any union member who votes republican has to wear a duckbill on his head? Etc.

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