People Who Need to STFU Today

A clearinghouse of the latest in offensive quotations from people who really should've just kept their nonsense to themselves.

Posted 1 year ago
I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.

Where do we even start? This is Chuck Winder, a Republican state senator in Idaho, trying to explain something about rape and abortion.

Chuck was explaining something about why there isn’t a rape/incest exception in the mandatory DOUBLE ultrasound bill that just passed in Idaho, but goodness knows what. He apparently thinks that only married people can be raped, or maybe that only married people get pregnant? Or that people are confused about when they’ve been raped? Or that being asked by the doctor about rape makes a difference when his bill offers no exemption from having to have two separate ultrasounds (one done by anti-abortion activists) in order to access abortion care?

I don’t think Chuck knows.

I think Chuck’s a big old ball of ignorant, arrogant, assumptive nonsense.

And I know that Chuck needs to STFU.
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