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To: Academiadotorg
Oh. look! I found her whole paper!
http://georgetownlawjournal.org/files/pdf/98-3/Prewitt.PDF
Pregnancy from rape1 occurs with “significant frequency.”2

1. For the purposes of this Note, the term “rape” refers to circumstances in which there has been sex without consent as claimed by the assaulted woman; it does not necessarily mean that the perpetrator has been tried and convicted of rape in a court of law.
2. Melissa M. Holmes et al., Rape-Related Pregnancy: Estimates and Descriptive Characteristics from a National Sample of Women, 175 AM. J. OBSTETRICS&GYNECOLOGY 320, 320 (1996).

Well that explains a lot!

10 posted on 08/23/2012 12:37:09 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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Thus, the stranger-rape prototype both initially and continuously “infect[s] legal judgments about criminality and victimization[,] . . . prevent[ing] many date and acquaintance rapes from being classified as ‘real rapes.’87 As a result, it has “transform[ed] rape from a pervasive phenomenon into an isolated one.”88

The footnotes on that page are rather interesting...
86. Susan Estrich, Rape, 95 YALE L.J. 1087, 1092 (1986). Explained another way:

Yes, that Susan Estrich.

12 posted on 08/23/2012 1:05:04 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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