Ron Paul might allow morning after injection for "honest rape".

This is the sort of thing that makes me really question the pro-life view--it disappears the pregnant person from the equation. We look at how this person became pregnant, we judge whether this is a valid reason to abort.  We look at how far along the fetus is, but not how far along the pregnant person is in accepting, understanding, and being able to deal with what has happened to hir. And where the "how" of a pregnancy becomes a topic for discussion, the idea of a pregnancy via rape become a question for speculation: Is it "rape-rape"?  "Honest rape?" The serious, violent kind of course, with evidence of struggle and the attempt of a female-bodied person to protect her feminine virtue, of course. Because nothing less would do!

So, in order to be a good rape victim, our female-bodied person has to present themselves to the hospital and report their rape right away, no matter who their rapist is, or their relationship to that person. They need to be ready to file that police report no matter who that individual who raped them may be. They need to do it before they really know they are pregnant--and then. maybe they are okay.

Piers Morgan says, after posing this difficult question, that it's unlikely that a rape would happen to one of Ron Paul's daughters or granddaughters. Sexual assault affects one in six women. I wish it were more unlikely. But I also wish more people understood that there is no "perfect" rape or rape victim, and that regardless of the circumstances, a person has a right to caring treatment that respects hir dignity and puts hir first. Anti-choice people focus on the condition of the fetus--the condition of the pregnant person should come first. To ignore hir is simply misogyny.