"Women ages 16 to 24 experience rape at rates four times
higher than the assault rate of all women,"2 making the
college (and high school) years the most vulnerable for
women. College women are more at risk for rape and other
forms of sexual assault than women the same age but not
in college.3 It is estimated that almost 25 percent of college
women have been victims of rape or attempted rape since
the age of 14."4
There are hundreds of other reputable resources, other than the US Department of Justice, that would verify the very high rate of reported rape experienced by college-age, college-attending women.
That's a whole lot of unwanted pregnancies, likely resulting in abortions or abused/neglected children - requiring medical care that YOU will pay for, because mother, being a college drop-out, will likely be on welfare.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
She's obviously a whore who likes sex so she deserves to suffer and her child deserves to be raised in poverty and have little chance at any real choices in life.
Extrapolating from a bullshit statement like, "...it is estimated that..." to conclude that there are a significant number of babies resulting from campus rapes is simply unwarranted. Virtually all such studies are undertaken to prove the unprovable, and lump together rape with "unwanted advances," or "attempted rape," which are so nebulous as to depend on the mood of the respondent at the moment when she answers the question.
I am often accused of "making shit up" on this board, but you are doing exactly that. Show me a reliable study that indicates a statistically significant number of rapes on college campus resulting in pregnancy and childbirth. It is made-up nonsense. Show me any statistics whatsoever on college-educated women who are forced to drop out and go on welfare because they were raped and couldn't get an abortion. Ridiculous.
A young woman who has the resources to get into college and be a student in good standing is not so helpless or stupid as you would lead us to believe.
Hello fuckwad; as a former college student with 10 years under her belt, I can attest that most college health plans DO cover birth control, hence avoidance of pregnancy even when raped.
Women who choose a Catholic university should have the same access to birth control via insurance.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
What, exactly, is a "fuckwad"? I suspect that I no longer qualify.
The issue is not about whether any insurance program may cover BC pills, if the Insured chooses to include that coverage. The question is whether the Government can demand that this coverage be mandatory for an institution that considers articial BC - particularly among the unmarried - to be morally abhorrent. An institution, by the way, which is SELF-INSURED for medical care, so that the institution itself - not some (fucking) insurance company - would be paying for the "reproductive products and services."
BTW, it took me fifteen years to complete my education (BA, JD, MBA), but it's not something I brag about.
I spent 10 years accumulating my skins; BA, BA, MA, JD.
Thank goddesses for birth control pills; I wasn't hostage to the pain of reproductive disease or childrearing and instead was free to fornicate and philosophize.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Except for the first year of law school when I did an unpaid internship at the ABA's Death Penalty Moratorium Project, I worked full time nights and weekends while attending college, graduate school, & law school.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
