AOC: Texas’s Pro-Life Law Is Designed to Perpetuate ‘Rape Culture’
"It's awful and he speaks from such a place of deep ignorance," New York congresswoman says
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling out bizarre comments made by the Republican governor of Texas about rape that he made in an attempt to justify the fact that his state's new stringent abortion ban contains no exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
Gov Greg Abbott Tuesday made a series of outlandish statements about rape in Texas when confronted with the fact that the new state law he signed — which went into effect last Wednesday and bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — would result in women in Texas being forced to give birth to the children of their rapists.
Among what Abbott said was that the state would somehow “eliminate rape” so victims won't have to have their rapist's baby under the state's new abortion restrictions.
Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive Democrat from New York, later explained just how unrealistic Abbott's comments had been.
“And these aren't just predators that are walking around the streets at night. They are people's uncles, they are teachers, they are family friends, and when something like that happens, it takes a very long time, first of all, for any victim to come forward. And second of all, when a victim comes forward, they don't necessarily want to bring their case into the carceral system,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “They don't want to re-traumatize themselves by going to court, they don't necessarily all want to report a family friend to a police precinct, let alone in the immediate aftermath of the trauma of a sexual assault.
“And so while some victims do use that recourse, and that is something that is completely available, and if that is part of their process, that's great. But this idea that we're going to, quote-unquote, 'end rape,' when the same type of frankly, rape culture and the same type of misogynistic culture that informed this abortion law to begin with is also — you know, those beliefs are held by the governor himself and this Texas state legislature,” the congresswoman added. “Frankly, there are many people in power, as we know from the #MeToo movement, that commit sexual assault, that help their friends cover up those crimes.
“And some of them even serve in the same state legislatures that are voting on these anti-choice bills. It's awful and he speaks from such a place of deep ignorance. And it's not just ignorance, it is ignorance that is hurting people across this country,” she said.
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