The Party Of Rape Culture: 40 Republican Rape Quotes Everyone Should Remember

[Triana]

Republicans are obsessed with rape. It is perhaps the one issue that caused the GOP to implode during the 2012 Election. The foot-in-mouth disease carried by the party has revealed much about the current beliefs of conservatives and it has spread like a plague in just the last year or two, and as Republicans have continued to attack rape victims, they have united women like never before against their extreme anti-abortion agenda.

In just the last six months alone, Republicans have forced draconian anti-abortion legislation into law in Kansas, Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Arkansas even after they acknowledged that they needed to do more to attract women voters. Well, apparently Republicans don’t care about what women think because they have done nothing but double down on the war on women they have been viciously waging since 2010, when Tea Party Republicans took control of state legislatures and governorships in states across the nation. Today’s Republican is required to oppose abortion exceptions for rape victims in order to avoid a primary challenge from someone further to the right. And because of that, Republicans have been saying some really stupid things about rape and rape victims. Here is a comprehensive list of 40 quotes uttered by Republicans about rape that women should keep in mind the next time they go into the voting booth in 2014.

1. “Rape is terrible. Rape is awful. Is it made any better by killing an innocent child? Does it solve the problem for the woman that’s been raped? We need to protect innocent life. Period.”
-Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, declaring that raped women must be additionally forced to carry and give birth to their rapist’s baby against their will in front of an all male crowd at the National Catholic Men’s Conference, June 2007.

2. “Nobody plans to have an accident in a car accident, nobody plans to have their homes flooded. You have to buy extra insurance for those two.”
-Barbara Listing, leader of Right To Life, comparing rape to a car accident, May 2013.

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[DirkGently]

1. KNR.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Ignorant cruel idiots. nt

[Jenoch]

3. Although he is my

U.S. Senator and I support him and voted for him, I am still disgusted by the rape 'joke' or skit that Senator Franken proposed about his raping of Lesley Stahl.

[Triana]

4. What? Hadn't heard about that. n/t

[Jenoch]

7. If you Google it, you will only come up with

right-wing sites, but it was a topic of the 2008 campaign. It was a proposed skit for SNL. I didn't think it was funny.

[niyad]

5. disgusting and ignorant and hateful as each of those statements was individually, to see them

all in one place like that makes it painfully obvious just how much these people hate women (and I am, indeed, including the women in that list).

each time a statement is made along those lines, the question should be asked "why do you hate women so much?"

[Triana]

6. and/or...

"Why don't you respect women?"
"Why don't you consider woman human?"

[niyad]

8. "why don't you consider women human?" that is what is so horrifying, because they really

don't.