To the people who said that HR3 would not change the way rape is defined, but only addresses how federal monies are applied to insurance policies that cover abortions (not rape), I would like to express my problem with your political autism here.
As I see it, the problem that I and many other people had was with the exemption in HR3 that would allow federal funding for an abortion prompted by a 'forcible rape'. Assuming that a percentage of women on Medicaid will want an abortion because they have been raped, how then is qualifying eligibility for an abortion by the term 'forcible rape' not a redefinition of rape? If you cannot receive an abortion subsidized by Medicaid because your rape was not the right kind, then doesn't that beg the question: what is rape?
To the people who say HR3 will help to distinguish between the 'fake' rapes and the 'real' rapes by clearly explaining that the government means 'forcible' rape... I defer to Jon Stewart's writers. I just hope those people who seek to root out the fakers never have to prove that they have been raped, or their identity was stolen, or they were jipped by the soda machine. I understand that to some of these people the real and plaguing problem is over how we spend our country's diminishing tax dollars. Guns or Butter? Forcible Rape or Margarine Rape?
I get it. Separation of church and state is a cornerstone American value, which means that you cannot ask the government for money to make fliers advertising a prayer circle in the school gymnasium at lunchtime. So, there are two governing bodies in the United States of America - church and state - that cannot be joined together to create a state funded pogrom against atheists, secular humanists and libertarians in this fair land. My point is this, HR3 is about de-funding abortion because it's a sin. And, the last time I checked, sin was a religious concept. But we all know that certain members of society are more righteous and better at defining things, like acts of violence such as rape. These lucky people understand the definition of forcible better than say the over 3 million women of reproductive age living below the poverty line that rely on Medicaid, some of which may want an abortion in the future because they have been raped.
Okay. Enough of me.
Shall we skin the Hyde Amendment? Shall the women of the United States rise up and take to the streets like our Egyptian sisters demanding, with clear and bold language, our reproductive rights?
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