Girl Tells Palin: I Did Not CHOOSE Rape!

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Girl Tells Palin: I Did Not CHOOSE Rape!
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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:23pm

Friday, Oct. 17, 2008 14:15 PDT
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/?last_story=/mwt/broadsheet/2008/10/17/rape_ad/

Girl tells Palin: I didn't choose rape

A new ad attacking Sarah Palin's stance on abortion is likely to follow you around like a rain cloud for the rest of the day. In front of a gray backdrop, a round-faced, watery-eyed young girl looks into the camera and says: "I was raped." Sniffing -- both she and I -- she adds, "And then I got pregnant." It was at this point that I flailed my arms and hit "pause," feeling as if I needed to guard myself for what was to come. She continues, her voice wavering:

Sarah Palin believes the government should be able to force me to carry the pregnancy to term. Sarah Palin believes that the government should make that choice. Not me. Governor Palin, I didn't have a choice about being raped. But I should have a choice about this.

It's unclear whether the young girl featured in the ad, from Women Against McCain Palin, is telling her own story or is a talented actress (I suspect it's the latter). Regardless, the final emotional impact is the same; this is a true story for many girls and women, and Palin believes they should have no reproductive choice. If a young rape victim doesn't sway undecided or apathetic voters with regard to Palin's position on abortion, it's unlikely anything will.

On that note, after watching the spot, you can lug that heavy heart of yours over to this Web site and put the ad on TV in key swing states.

― Tracy Clark-Flory
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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:27pm
She also has the choice to go to the hospital to be treated and receive the morning after pill.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:38pm
She only has that choice if it is available in her area. There are pharmacists who refuse to fill that prescription. By your reasoning a rape victim is supposed to be thinking clearly in the 24 to 48 hours following a traumatic event. I wonder how many of us would or could think that clearly in the hours following that kind of trauma?
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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:44pm
The GOP platform does not want a woman to have access to the morning after pill. McCain said he does, but didn't stop the GOP from changing his whole platform. That's not leadership. Palin's agenda will set women back.

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:47pm
The hospital will administer the medication without the woman having to go to the pharmacy.

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:49pm
Not true.

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:49pm

"The hospital will administer the medication"


As long as it's not a Catholic hospital.

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:55pm
Only hospitals that receive federal funds are required to do so. Private hospitals are not. You have no way of knowing which kind of hospital she went to or whether she went to one at all. Many women do not go to the hospital as that is another traumatic event. If she went to a private hospital she may not have known to ask for it.
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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:56pm
You don't have to ask for it.

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 5:03pm
Again only if you are not at a private hospital, or a Catholic hospital as a previous poster stated. If she didn't even go to the hospital she wouldn't be asked. Maybe she couldn't afford to pay for her own rape kit.
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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 5:31pm

((((I wonder how many of us would or could think that clearly in the hours following that kind of trauma? ))))

Spot on. I wonder, too. Rape victims need support and tougher laws from legislators, not restrictions and personal agendas imposed on them.