Posted on 05/17/2019 1:43:05 AM PDT by Morgana
I will tell you what I know of the way silence grows roots inside of a person, until all that is left is a brutal, crushing vacancy where a voice ought to be.
I was 17 when I was raped by a classmate. He was someone I knew, someone I trusted, but in the end, none of that mattered. I would not find out until eight months later that I was pregnant as a result of the assault. My daughter, Zoe, would grow inside of me with a fatal congenital birth defect that took away her ability to think, or emote, or connect to the world in all the fundamental ways that make a life worth living.
I was forced to give birth to the child of this rape, always connected in some way to the man who took so much from me. I lived in Alabama, which this week welcomed a draconian new abortion law, but the state’s politicians have never borne any ethical compunctions about controlling women and subverting their agency. To them, we are collateral in a game of politics, and the suffering they inflict matters very little ― if at all ― to them. They have no interest in perspective or stories like my own, but I must speak ― or else the woman behind me might not.
It starts with a man at a water park in Destin, Florida, and I’m 9 years old. He grabs my inner tube as he passes by, reaches under and sticks his fingers high up between my thighs. His thumb strokes against me. I look over at him, shocked. I want to scream, but he smiles back at me. His eyes are everywhere I am.
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The original term was "lebens unwertes leben". It doesn't sound any better in German.
“She hated Zoe for being imperfect.”
I think that’s the bottom line.
I heard this story before. The man at the Water Park?
Judge Roy Moore.
J/K. But she’s lying, just like the women who spoke up in his campaign. Seems they went back under their rocks when Moore lost.
Probably total fiction but it doesn’t matter. Abortion is the one issue that works for demokkkrats and without it, the dem party would have died a natural death 30 years ago. We need to get the issue settled one way or other and out of US politics, as quickly as possible.
Of course, it’s fiction. Bam! Just got it all in in time for the story to go to print. Amazing. 99% of the time any sad little story is nothing but fake news.
This may or may not be true; but if it is true it is a classic example of leftist fraud. In Leftist Fraud the message is culled from selecting a friend incident at the far end of the Bell Curve and presenting it as a mainstream occurrence. If you keep this example in mind you can see this happening over and over again in almost everything the left says and does.
My thought as well.
Why do you make that assumption about her life?
8 Months???
Come on!
It’s her child, too.
A lot of these supposed “rapes” involve sex which she later decides she was “uncomfortable” consenting to.
The original definition of rape involved the use, or threat, of violence. If you go by the original definition, there are hardly any real rape pregnancies.
I hope this “rapist’s child” grows up and discovers a cure for cancer to force his mother and the staff of the HuffPo to eat sh**.
“Someone please explain how all these unreported rapes keep occurring? and how to weed out the whack jobs from the truth?”
If they don’t report it to the police, I just assume they are lying.
I’m sure we have all been victims of crimes that we chose not to report to the police, probably much lesser crimes than rape, but still, I wouldn’t expect to be able to whine and cry about them in public if I didn’t think they were serious enough to report to the police. If the crime is serious enough that you think it is some symptom of a deficiency in society, the first thing you are going to do is go to the police and see if they can do something about it, BEFORE you go on a publicity campaign.
I'm having a hard time buying this.
What "assumption" are you referring to?
“Chock full of...”
OMG! I am soooo sorry.
The above was a typo. I intended to say "bet you HER life has been just...etc." Please accept my most humble apology for impugning YOUR character. It was absolutely an honest typing error on my part, and in no way intended to be critical of you.
Also, a special thanks to pleasedontzotme for pointing out my error. I misunderstood you to be saying my criticism of the author was an "assumption," and so didn't immediately pick up on what you were saying.
Again, my apologies
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