I was one of the people who cried foul on the Duke rape case, because the whole story stank to high heaven. That being said, there are cases where women, particularly young women, are too traumatized to open up their mouths about rape until the evidence is undeniable.
It happened to someone very close to me. Over 20 years later, she still has annual battles with depression for about a month around the anniversary of the attack.
Still sorry I didn't put a bullet in the bastard's head.
Rape is a horrible crime. Castration should be the penalty.
That said look up the stats on false reports of rape. A good percentage are false. If you make an exception for rape for abortion, wouldn’t any woman claim rape? So the exception becomes the rule.
Politically it was stupid and plays into the “war on women” MSM gameplan against Republicans.
I think the answer is that there is no generalization that covers how all women would react to a rape. The feminists have pushed the “no woman would lie about rape because it’s so traumatic to report and follow through”.
But of course, there are women who have made false accusations, and there are women who have never reported “legitimate rape”.
The self-serving generalizations by the feminists and the lap dog agreement by the MSM are what has served to muddle and confuse the discussion of rape and how different women would react to it.