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RandySF

(60,429 posts)
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 09:44 PM Aug 2022

MI-GOV: Republican says rape victims "will have their babies to help them heal".


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MAGA nominee for MI Governor Tudor Dixon is asked why she is against a 14 year-old rape victim being allowed to get an abortion. She says the bond that rape victims will have with their babies will help them heal.
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MI-GOV: Republican says rape victims "will have their babies to help them heal". (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2022 OP
Speechless. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2022 #1
Me, too. n/t EndlessWire Aug 2022 #12
Ms. Dixon must be lucky enough not to suffer a sexual assult. PA_jen Aug 2022 #2
I'm so sorry I can't imagine the pain you have endured. Diamond_Dog Aug 2022 #6
Thank you. I am very grateful I was able to escape PA_jen Aug 2022 #8
Is he speaking from experience? PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2022 #3
Sickening DET Aug 2022 #7
Tudor Nixon. roamer65 Aug 2022 #4
A baby that looks just like your rapist Diamond_Dog Aug 2022 #5
Is that what Tudor would tell her daughters and female family members? keithbvadu2 Aug 2022 #9
Dixon is a sociopath. area51 Aug 2022 #10
Heal? mzmolly Aug 2022 #11
Sure. Nothing says healing by looking at the result of the rapist assault on your body daily. scarletlib Aug 2022 #13

PA_jen

(1,114 posts)
2. Ms. Dixon must be lucky enough not to suffer a sexual assult.
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 09:54 PM
Aug 2022

It is hard enough to heal without getting pregnant. It will be torture beyond words to make a victim carry a child from the event and give birth to it. I speak as a rape victim who is grateful everyday I didn't get pregnant. Unfortunately it was my first sexual experience. May the superior power above correct the evil that overturned Roe v Wade. May God become law of the land.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,948 posts)
3. Is he speaking from experience?
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 10:20 PM
Aug 2022

Has he been raped, gotten pregnant from the rape, and then healed by having that baby?

No? Hmmm. I wonder why he thinks he can speak for such people.

DET

(1,349 posts)
7. Sickening
Fri Aug 19, 2022, 11:08 PM
Aug 2022

Sadly, the candidate in question is a woman - who claims that the video was edited and her comments were taken out of context. She had the temerity at one point to admit that Biden won the presidency, then walked it back following excoriation from the base.

scarletlib

(3,420 posts)
13. Sure. Nothing says healing by looking at the result of the rapist assault on your body daily.
Sat Aug 20, 2022, 07:45 AM
Aug 2022

Maybe a woman can overcome that trauma and fully love the child. In my own heart, I don’t think it is possible. No matter how hard you might try, the memory of the rape will affect how you feel about the child.

Children can detect when they are not wanted. These pro-birth people never think about the long term affect on the child.

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