Rape Victim Quotes
Mourdock, defeated Richard Lugar in the Republican Senatorial Primary election. Lugar, one of the most respected and effective Senators was a statesman who worked with any and all to find effective compromises to reach national solutions. The nation was so politically polarized that the Republican Indiana voters ousted one of their most senior senators because he was effective at developing national For most Indiana voters the thought of electing a man who believed that rapes were the will of God.was too much. See {626717} and {626716} for other Mourdock’s outrageous comments. While this rhetoric won in the Primary, it lost him the general election in a state where Republicans had a strong majority and should have had the seat. Mourdock had intended to reiterate his opposition to abortion even in instances of rape. However, his ideology and religious fundamentalism got the better of him and he alienated not only the people who favored woman’s choice but many abortion opponents as well.
In much of the Islamic world if a woman commits adultery or becomes pregnant out of wedlock, she will often be killed by her own father or brothers who perceive that this is the only way to maintain the honor of the family. The primitive custom really becomes gross when a woman who is the victim of rape, ends up being killed by her own male family members. In some Muslim countries honor killings are against the law but that prohibition is rarely legally enforced.
Another danger for a woman reporting rape, is that her male relatives might murder her for bringing shame and dishonor upon the family. This is not uncommon in some Islamic nations.
