Every time some anti-choice politician runs off at the mouth about rape the question “why can’t they just stop doing that?” arises. I guess the simplest answer is that anti-choicers think about rape a lot. And what they believe about rape, like many of the other things they believe – about female biology, pregnancy and fetal development, etc. – is a matter of moral and metaphysical certainty to them. They don’t all hold the exact same stupid beliefs but they s...

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“We have a criminal justice system that over time has lost sight of victims’ rights”   

ICYMI . . .

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S (AZ-04) co-sponsored the Victims’ Rights Amendment (H.J. Res. 40); legislation intended to amend the Constitution and afford all victims of crime the opportunity to have a participatory role in the criminal justice system and extend certain protections of law to victims during their involvement with those processes. The ...

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