Myth About Rape and Pregnancy Is Not New

The article I’ve came upon and read this week is an article I found on The New York Times called “Myth About Rape and Pregnancy Is Not New” published August 20, 2012, http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/myth-about-rape-and-pregnancy-is-not-new/

This article is about how some people claim that pregnancies from rape are very rare because if it’s genuine rape, the female body has different ways to try to shut that whole thing down. There was even a study done by the Center for Disease Control that estimated 32,101 pregnancies from rape each year in the United States. Which meant that only 5 percent of women who were raped actually became pregnant. An Arkansas Republican claimed that hormones that are generated by fear often prevent rape victims from getting pregnant. Which I thought was very interesting but his reason was that pregnancy rarely occurs after rape because the stress of the assault sets off some kind of biochemical reaction that prevents them from getting knocked up. I think what the writer wants us to understand from this article is that women who get raped hardly ever get pregnant because of the biochemical response that occurs in their bodies when there getting raped. This article really challenged me to think and do more research to find out if this information is true or not. But it did help me out with my question I have on abortions; it also provided some good useful information that I can use towards my curiosity question. Overall I thought that this article was interesting and was something that really made me think. I can’t really say that the information that I received from this article is true or not, but it gives me more details to help support my blogs.

Abortions for Rape Victims

This week I found an article that pertains to abortions and rape, pretty much similar to my first blog but this article mainly focuses on women in the military that have been victims of rape. I found this article on the The New York Times called "Abortions for Rape Victims" published on December 18, 2011, if you want to read the article it will be posted on the following link below. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/opinion/abortions-for-rape-victims.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0

This article is about why the military refuses to provide complete care for soldiers that have been raped. The reason why the military is not covering this kind of care is that there now so short on compassion that it won’t allow insurance coverage for abortion in cases of sexual assault. Basically what the writer wants us to know about this article is that the military won’t help women who have been raped victims while in combat. If the female soldier wants a safe, legal abortion, she must go overseas, which is pretty difficult because of the expensive trip that will disrupt her military service and also delay her abortion. This article gave me some useful information about my curiosity question. It simply supported that some women get abortions because they’ve been a victim of rape and it’s a harsh memory they try to forget and move on with.  I thought that this article was appealing but the thing that interested me the most was that the military can provide top of the line care for the wounded soldiers. But when it comes to a rape victim it seems like they don’t care, I think its time for rape survivors to get the same treatment.