Dana Loesch received an Accuracy In Media award from CPAC last week. I’m not sure why, except that to CPAC folks, lying about an issue is called accuracy in their world.
Think Progress
This week, a Virginia state House committee overwhelmingly approved a bill requiring women to receive an ultrasound before they can have an abortion. Because the majority of abortions happen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, many women would have to undergo an invasive procedure “in which a probe is inserted into the vagina, and then moved around until an ultrasound image is produced,” as Dahlia Lithwick explained last week.
CNN contributor and Andrew Breitbart blogger Dana Loesch, however, sees no problem with a law that effectively legalizes state-sponsored rape, saying the procedure is no different than penetration that occurred during consensual intercourse that “resulted in the pregnancy,” as Little Green Footballs reported:
LOESCH: That’s the big thing that progressives are trying to say, that it’s rape and so on and so forth. [...] There were individuals saying, “Oh what about the Virginia rape? The rapes that, the forced rapes of women who are pregnant?” What? Wait a minute, they had no problem having similar to a trans-vaginal procedure when they engaged in the act that resulted in their pregnancy.
Listen:
Unfortunately, such a radical view isn’t unique to conservative talking heads like Loesch. According to Lithwick, an unnamed Republican delegate made the same argument in support of the bill, saying women consented to being “vaginally penetrated when they got pregnant.”
Related articles
- CNN Contributor Dana Loesch Defends Virginia State-Sponsored Rape Bill As No Different Than Consensual Sex (thinkprogress.org)
- CNN’s Dana Loesch Equates Mandatory Trans-Vaginal Ultrasound to Having Sex (littlegreenfootballs.com)
- Virginia Poised To Enact ‘State-Sponsored Rape’ Law Forcing Women To Be Vaginally Probed Before Abortions (kaystreet.wordpress.com)
- Virginia Poised To Enact ‘State-Sponsored Rape’ Law Forcing Women To Be Vaginally Probed Before Abortions (thinkprogress.org)
- Virginia’s Ultrasound Law Would Require Forcible Penetration for Women Seeking Abortions [Abortions] (gawker.com)
- Proposed Virginia Law Will Force Women To Undergo Invasive Ultrasound Examinations (outsidethebeltway.com)
I’ve been trying not to say anything about this, but I’m so furious, and it’s not going away. Since I don’t have my own political blog running anymore, I hope it’s okay to rant for a moment:
The way that these people are talking is despicable. My wife and I have kids. So, since we’re all adults, here, we know that we’ve been up to certain things, including “vaginal penetration.”
But let’s linger there for a moment. I think that that’s a terrible way to characterize lovemaking. What my wife and I do, with mutual agreement, affection, and pleasure is not remotely the same as having a complete stranger stick an object in her.
So, their logic is just about the same as that which figures that if a woman has agreed to have sex once before that she can’t say that she was raped on another occasion. This is 100-year-old “logic” and has no place in the modern world.
This bill isn’t even really about preventing abortions. It’s about degrading women.
This bill isn’t even really about preventing abortions. It’s about degrading women.
WK, thank you for your very thoughtful comment. Your entire comment is very much on point!