Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:38 PM
Segami (5,730 posts)
Pennsylvania Bill Includes Provision Requiring Women To PROVE THEY WERE RAPED!
A bill in the Pennsylvania House proposing the reduction of welfare benefits for low-income women contains a provision requiring a woman who became pregnant from rape to prove that she reported her assault. As ThinkProgress reported, the measure, proposed by five Republican state lawmakers, seeks to eliminate an increase in benefits if a child is conceived while a woman is covered under the Temporary Assistance To Needy Family program. A woman can seek an exception to this if the child is conceived as a result of rape. However, she must prove that she reported the incident to the authorities and gave the police her assaulter's identity. The bill reads: Elimination of benefits under subsection (d) shall not apply to any child conceived as a result of rape or incest if the department: (1) receives a non-notarized, signed statement from the pregnant woman stating that she was a victim of rape or incest, as the case may be, and that she reported the crime, including the identity of the offender, if known, to a law enforcement agency having the requisite jurisdiction or, in the case of incest where a pregnant minor is the victim, to the county child protective service agency and stating the name of the law enforcement agency or child protective service agency to which the report was made and the date such report was made.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=2718&pn=4295 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/pennsylvania-welfare-benefits-rape_n_2012417.html .
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Author | Time | Post |
 Pennsylvania Bill Includes Provision Requiring Women To PROVE THEY WERE RAPED! (Original post) |
Segami | Oct 2012 | OP |
| LisaL | Oct 2012 | #1 | |
| hack89 | Oct 2012 | #4 | |
| pokerfan | Oct 2012 | #7 | |
| defacto7 | Oct 2012 | #8 | |
| enough | Oct 2012 | #2 | |
| Segami | Oct 2012 | #5 | |
| patrice | Oct 2012 | #3 | |
| Democratopia | Oct 2012 | #6 | |
| SouthernLiberal | Oct 2012 | #9 | |
| porphyrian | Oct 2012 | #10 | |
| Segami | Oct 2012 | #11 | |
| JackN415 | Oct 2012 | #12 | |
| Segami | Oct 2012 | #13 | |
| justiceischeap | Oct 2012 | #14 | |
| JackN415 | Oct 2012 | #15 | |
| PeaceNikki | Oct 2012 | #16 | |
| gollygee | Oct 2012 | #17 |
Response to Segami (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:40 PM
1. So if a woman was raped by someone she didn't know, she is out of lack?
Response to LisaL (Reply #1)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:44 PM
4. ", if known," would the operative phrase. nt
Response to LisaL (Reply #1)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:56 PM
defacto7 (3,197 posts)
8. "If known" is definitly the operative...
Response to Segami (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:43 PM
enough (6,902 posts)
2. A bunch of sitting fucks. (nt)
Response to Segami (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:44 PM
patrice (47,256 posts)
3. OUTrageous! Women BEWARE, no doesn't mean no, in Pennsylvania! nt
Response to Segami (Original post)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 11:21 PM
porphyrian (18,530 posts)
10. Republicans spend a lot of time further victimizing victims.
Response to porphyrian (Reply #10)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 11:24 PM
Segami (5,730 posts)
11. Both! Bullies ARE Cowards.
Response to Segami (Original post)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:20 AM
12. I thought it was a satire, to mock Republican as Talibans or muslim extremists who stoned raped...
Response to JackN415 (Reply #12)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 07:45 AM
Segami (5,730 posts)
13. The republicans ARE the Taliban.
Response to Segami (Original post)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 07:53 AM
justiceischeap (9,766 posts)
14. And it's co-sponsored by... a woman.
Response to justiceischeap (Reply #14)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 07:58 AM
15. Afghan, Pakistan women also execute honor killing on their own daughters
Response to Segami (Original post)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:02 AM
PeaceNikki (19,164 posts)
16. I wonder how DU's own anti-choice faction feels about it. Oh wait, they don't want a rape exception.
Response to Segami (Original post)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:05 AM
gollygee (12,318 posts)
17. Oh now that's just asking for all sorts of trouble
