Rape is not a method of contraception . . .

On Thursday, asked during a TV interview in Roanoke, Va., whether a woman should be able to get an abortion if she was raped,(Paul Ryan) replied: 

“I’m very proud of my pro-life record, and I’ve always adopted the idea, the position that, the method of conception doesn’t change the definition of life.”

Rape, Mr. Paul Ryan, is not a method of conception. 

 It is an act of violence & control, played out in a sexual manner.  It is brutal, and it invades more that the body.

1. The very idea that it does not matter how a woman conceives is repugnant.

Of course it matters.  

Conception should always come out of an act of mutual consent.  Out of an  act of loving one another enough to want to make a child.

However, the need for sex, a very biological & emotional need, does not always take the time to consider the consequences of the act.  Which can result in a child.

Teenagers, 29 year old, 36 year old women get pregnant fulfilling that need.  Unmarried women get pregnant.

If there was a moment in my life when I was not pro-choice, I do not remember it. 

Pro-choice, not pro-abortion as a method of birth control.

And yet, I was that 29 year old, that 36 year old woman.  Not married.

My choice was to give birth to those two embryos.  As a result, I have two handsome, kind, loving & amazing sons.  And when I made that choice, I realized I had the greatest resource available to help & support me – my family.

But it was my choice.  Certainly not the government’s choice.  

There are real, serious, compelling reasons why women take a different path that I did.  Sometimes dire circumstances.  Those reasons are their own, and personal, not political.

 

Rape & incest are just two of those dire circumstances.

If, Mr. Paul Ryan, you think rape is just a “method of conception,” you are deluded.  

And a woman who votes for you on the ticket, is voting against herself.