The Official War on Women Thread

[COLOR=rgba(109, 57, 140, 0.74902)]Court Requires Disabled Rape Victim To Prove She Resisted, Calls For Evidence Of ‘Biting, Kicking, Scratching’http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...ls-for-evidence-of-biting-kicking-scratching/[/COLOR]



In a 4-3 ruling Tuesday afternoon, the Connecticut State Supreme Court overturned the sexual assault conviction of a man who had sex with a woman who “has severe cerebral palsy, has the intellectual functional equivalent of a 3-year-old and cannot verbally communicate.” The Court held that, because Connecticut statutes define physical incapacity for the purpose of sexual assault as “unconscious or for any other reason. . . physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act,” the defendant could not be convicted if there was any chance that the victim could have communicated her lack of consent. Since the victim in this case was capable of “biting, kicking, scratching, screeching, groaning or gesturing,” the Court ruled that that victim could have communicated lack of consent despite her serious mental deficiencies:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/20...ls-for-evidence-of-biting-kicking-scratching/

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one for each of those ass clowns... how repulsive!! those are the "brilliant minds" dispensing "justice "; people, we should all be worried...

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has the intellectual functional equivalent of a 3-year-old
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isn't THAT the definition of rape?

I mean that's what they say about children and everyone under the age of consent?

isn't THIS the law?
 
So many of these findings just make good common sense, and there's already a bevy of existing research that shows that a reduction in unintended pregnancies results in a lower abortion rate, and that access to contraception results in a lower rate of unintended pregnancies—all of which saves taxpayers money. It bears repeating: for every $1 investment in family planning, taxpayers save $3.74 in Medicaid expenditures.
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the religious right hates women. how can anyone not see this?
 
"Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that." -- Paul Ryan 10.19.12
 
Bad examples, in Victorian England school children were punished severely for using their left hands, apparently due to a belief in devilish influences - a belief that went back to the dark ages. Also, in England it was not uncommon in the 50s-70s to see signs in pubs and rented accommodation stating "no blacks, no Irish"...
 
faethor said:
"Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that." -- Paul Ryan 10.19.12
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typical pig to try and marginalize the situation.

it ain't working
 
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