Another GOP Genius on Rape and Women's Bodies

[Content Note: Rape culture. NB: Not just women could be raped and/or perhaps be heavy-laden via rape.]Lest there exists a moment of peace from Republican physiology experts openly opining on which transpires with individuals with uteri when they're raped, Celeste Greig, leader from the conservative California Republican Set up, gave a supercool interview towards the Daily Democrat by which she tried to rebuke as "insensitive" the infamous commentary of disgraced misogynist bozo Todd Akin, but wound up basically repeating precisely what he'd stated:Before coming in the condition GOP's spring convention here, Celeste Greig told this newspaper that pregnancy by rape are rare "since it is an action of violence, since the is traumatized."Grieg may be the leader from the conservative California Republican Set up, the state's earliest and biggest GOP volunteer organization. Taxation once known as it "the conscience from the Republican Party."Ironically, Greig was at the time of demeaning former Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin for stating that sufferers of "legitimate rape" rarely conceive because "the feminine body has ways to try and shut that whole factor lower." It had been a remark that lots of believe brought not just to his defeat in November but additionally assisted tarnish the Republican brand round the country."Which was an insensitive remark," Greig stated. "I am sure he regretted it. He must have return and apologized."Greig, however, continued to state: "Granted, the proportion of pregnancy because of rape is small since it is an action of violence, since the is traumatized. I'm not sure what number of pregnancy are because of the violence of rape. Due to the trauma your body experiences, I'm not sure what number of pregnancy is a result of the act.""Granted, I'm a no-nothing dipshit, but here are a few unverified claims which i can't defend but I am sure they are true, don't be concerned.InchSantorum. Akin. Walsh. Mourdock. Koster. Gingrey. And today Greig. Exactly what a awesome club filled with awesome people!Trauma doesn't prevent conception. As Steven Harmon notes in the Daily Democrat: "Most research on rape and pregnancy has proven roughly exactly the same rates of being pregnant than pregnancy caused by consensual sex. Only one 2003 study demonstrated the speed where women conceive after rape to become a lot more than double compared to just one act of consensual sex, most probably because ladies who are raped are not as likely to make use of birth control. The research used data in the U . s . States National Violence Against Women survey."There's lots of privilege—and lot of different types of privilege—that functions operating towards the profoundly ignorant thought that trauma prevents conception. If, for instance, these Republicans had a passing knowledge of the common utilization of rape like a weapon of war in other areas around the globe, and also the plentiful pregnancy that result, they wouldn't be making such absurd claims.[H/T to Andrea at Think Progress.]