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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The research letter, published by JAMA Internal Medicine, estimated that nearly 520,000 rapes were associated with 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states.

More than 64,000 women and girls became pregnant because of rape in states that implemented abortion bans after Roe v. Wade was overruled, according to a new research estimate published online Wednesday.

The research letter, published by JAMA Internal Medicine and headed up by the medical director at Planned Parenthood of Montana, estimated that nearly 520,000 rapes were associated with 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states, most of which had no exceptions that allowed for terminations of pregnancies that occurred as a result of rape.

Texas topped the list, with 45% of the rape-related pregnancies occurring within the state, researchers estimated. Ninety-one percent of the estimated rape-related pregnancies took place in states without exceptions for rape, according to the researchers.

"Few (if any)" of the women and girls who became pregnant because of rape "obtained in-state abortions legally, suggesting that rape exceptions fail to provide reasonable access to abortion for survivors," the research letter said.

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[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 131 points 10 months ago

JFC. I already knew that the amount of rape going on was bad, but still. What a goddamn world we live in.

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

It's just horrendous

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Yeah this is even more harrowing when you consider this is only tallying rapes in roughly half the country.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Rape in pro birth States was already above the national average. Now that they have given rapist the green light to try to extend the control over their victims indefinitely with a child.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 84 points 10 months ago
[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

I would really love it if a Pro-lifer could come and comment here about how this is such a good thing. And how this will benefit both the mother and child. How this is going to foster such a wonderful happy family...

...but they won't. Their support is surface level. "Babies good, abortion bad." God forbid you take off their rose-tinted glasses and expose them to the fucking realities of this world. Fuck them and their ignorance. They're ignorance fueled these policies and the politicians that pushed them.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 24 points 10 months ago

Wonder how many 64k child born that will grow up hating thier existence. Causing more dissent.

[-] clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Well, as a product of rape myself, I can tell you that I am a firm supporter of abortion. I absolutely should have been aborted, but here we are. Pro-birthers are unbelievably selfish assholes.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Well I, for one, am glad you are here.

[-] clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

I think I get what you’re trying to say, I just wish I existed on better terms, you know? I mean, I’m happy with who I am and how I turned out, and I love my life now, but there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that I shouldn’t exist. I’d love to have been a happy little accident, or even the love child of an elicit affair, rather than to have my very existence be a constant reminder of hurt and betrayal and the worst moment of somebody’s life. It’s a raw deal, but not anything I want to take back, if that makes any sense.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

That all makes perfect sense to me. hug I wish I could take that away.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Well, they'll be living in a fiery wasteland, so I'm going to say, most.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago

"PRO-LIFE" POLICIES EMPOWER RAPISTS.

ALWAYS HAVE.

FULL STOP.

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

We should start calling them pro rape.

[-] Damage@slrpnk.net 64 points 10 months ago

That's a staggering amount of rapes, and it's not even all of them

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

Not a surprise. Rape is more about control and power than sexual gratification so anti abortion laws encourage would be rapist. There's no greater way to display power and control over someone than to take away their body autonomy. Pro birthers are the lowest of the low. They secretly love the idea of a women being raped and becoming pregnant as a result. In their mind the victim is at least good for something.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

520,000 rapes that we know of

They might as well legalize rape now.

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Dictator Trump will surely see to this.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

You know what is mind boggling to me?

No matter how frustrated I got with my sex life with my ex, the thought of rape was very much a "why would you do that to someone you care about" thought response.

That says to me that the perpetrators lack the ability to really care or empathize.

How many of those 520k rapes resulted in any prosecution? How many rapists are still out there, going about life lacking any form of human empathy?

[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 22 points 10 months ago

That's because rape is not about sex or being horny. Rape is about violence. It's a power play where the perpetrator's goal is to dominate and harm someone else to boost their own selfish and misguided self esteem.

[-] USSEthernet@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

Fuckin right man. My wife has said that if I "need" sex and she's not in the mood, she'll just let me do it. I tell her I can't do that, just feels wrong and rapey if she's not into it.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I can only hope these kinds of numbers mean there's a "few" highly prolific rapists out there doing a whole lot of it, but that would be way too optimistic I suppose?

[-] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

A few Genghis Khan's?

[-] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Can't their bodies just shut it down? I was told that they can.

[-] cyborgbabyman@lemmy.l0l.city 16 points 10 months ago

Women should be armed and dangerous. No table, can't change my mind.

[-] TheJims@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Republicans, through legislation are paving the way towards a fascist dictatorship which will include lots of rape.

[-] jzzvid 5 points 10 months ago

All fascist dictatorships included lots of rape. It is one of the defining social characteristics of authoritarian societies and was a present in the regimes of Mussolini and Hitler as well as their more modern counterparts such as the regimes of Saddam Hussein and ISIS.

These two things are really the same thing and are inseparable because it is always about power and the maintaining of authoritarian power dynamics. This is just what right-wingers do and have always done.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

64,565 rapists live openly raping women in Texas. Is this not the more concerning concern? Like sure, 65k women are pregnant now and who cares about their life right? But that's 65k within just a few months. I assume it's gotta be less than 65k rapists? Most probably more than 1 rapist. So middle of the road, a rapist that raped 4 women in the past few months so like 13,000 rapists. How long will it take 13,000 rapists to rape everyone you know personally? Wife, daughter, mom, friend? Isn't that also important? Okay maybe keep abortion available until you Texas chop 13,000 dicks off?

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Oh, before we forget,

"But but but ..... not all men!"

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Those numbers are heartbreaking. Even worse, I would expect these numbers to have gone up and continue to go up because of the abortion ban.

It's also sad to see how weak the democrats are that they haven't passed a bill to make abortion legal yet.

[-] BlackNo1@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

every conservative needs a bullet to the head

[-] doctornormal@lemmy.l0l.city 1 points 10 months ago

So fucked up man

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago
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