Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Pro Choice Action Team -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: YlangYlangBreeze who wrote (557)	2/16/2001 5:17:14 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 948

Joelle, I can only tell you that (and surely you know this) when a person is raped, victimized, the repercussions of that event extends to others. Your family, your husband or lover. When my mother was raped, the extreme guilt and despair and hurt for her that we felt (she was in a nursing home) was almost unbearable. I worked for months trying to find justice on behalf of my mother. It never happened. But I know too well the suffering and pain that she endured. Even though she was not mentally "competent" at the time....I could read my mothers eyes, she didn't have to express to me in words what she was going through. But having not been a personal victim of rape, I'm not going to disrespect you by saying "I know what it's like." I don't. I only know what it was like for me dealing with the aftermath with my family and my friend. It's hard for me to imagine the untold horror that a woman would feel if she conceived a child as the result of a rape. I would never presume to deny anyone the right to deal with that as she saw fit. Yes I do acknowledge that your wounds and horror story happened to YOU (in the first person). I'm not playing a game of one "down"manship. But remember you are the one who brought up rape in the context of this abortion discussion. And I think it's unfair for you to assume that others are not empathetic to the plight of rape victims because they don't necessarily conform pro-choice dogma.