NPR: Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens

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...Dickman used to live and practice in Texas, and he began to wonder about patients who became pregnant due to rape in states where abortion is no longer an option. (He is also the medical director of Planned Parenthood Montana and a plaintiff in several lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions in Montana.)

He and a group of colleagues have arrived at an answer. They estimate in a research letter published Wednesday in JAMA Internal Medicine that 64,565 pregnancies have been caused by rape in the 14 states where abortion is banned.

The figure, while an estimate that may spark some debate, is an important data point since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Supreme Court decision overturned the federal guarantee of abortion rights. While there once was political consensus that abortion should be permitted in cases of rape, that has changed. Few states with total bans on abortion have exceptions for rape. Those that have exceptions require victims to report the rape to authorities, something that research shows happens only in a small fraction of sexual assaults.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/24/1226161416/rape-caused-pregnancy-abortion-ban-states?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news

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1. Over 64,000 persons placed in involuntary servitude to the state by SCROTUS.

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2. If even one person has to be a slave to pregnancy

then that is one too many IMHO

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3. Over 64,000 women irreparably harmed. n/t

[Ohio Joe]

4. 64,565 This number needs to be in ads and put on every TV - nt

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5. "I'm not surprised," Hansen says. "If anything, I'm over here going -- it's probably higher."

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6. How many men raped these women?

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7. Statement of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo

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