Reply #43: Well, yes, it's a felony. [View All]

[noamnety]

In some countries it's a crime for women to wear pants, but we cheer the women who break that law - because we recognize that some laws are designed to be sexist and we don't normally support those types of laws (in other countries).

Restricting access to specific health care procedures based on whether a woman had sex consensually or not would be an example of one of those laws.
Imagine if insurance coverage for cancer only allowed chemo if the person had never consensually done anything to increase their risk of cancer (diet, smoking, living near a pollution site, etc.). We don't normally use health care access in punitive ways - except traditionally to control "sluts."

Even now, there's the issue of insurance companies refusing to treat women for injuries if they were assaulted by someone they've had sex with - because that's considered a "preexisting condition." Imagine if they refused to treat injuries to a man if his friend knifed him in a fight over a gambling debt - being friends with a violent guy isn't considered a preexisting condition in that case. Funny how that works.