Opinion: The Republican Party has a rape problem
CNN
Recent comments by Republican candidates and elected officials about rape victims seeking abortions -- and the increasing disappearance of rape exceptions from abortion bans and regulations -- show the GOP's fundamental embrace of hostile misogyny, argues Jill Filipovic.
The conservative moment scored a major victory on Friday when the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, overturning Roe v. Wade -- ending the era of federal protection for legal abortion in the United States and instituting one of the most significant rollbacks of civil rights in US history. But a number of Republican candidates and elected officials don't seem content with simply stripping women of our right to control our own reproductive organs. They're also taking aim at rape victims.
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