Rape is 100% caused by the rapist.
There is no shared responsibility. There is no “well what was she wearing.” There is no “but they were drinking.” There is no “mixed signals.”
The only person who decides to rape… is the rapist.
Clothes don’t cause it. Alcohol doesn’t cause it.
Being nice doesn’t cause it. Existing doesn’t cause it.
A choice was made. And it wasn’t the victim’s.
Stop bending over backwards to redistribute blame just to make people more comfortable. Accountability belongs exactly where it started.
My classmate was raped on her way back home from university and got pregnant, but couldn’t get an abortion due to the laws. She had to drop out of university where she was studying medicine. Because of pregnancy and childbirth expenses, she couldn’t continue her studies, left college, started working at a coffee shop, lost the fun of her early twenties, and lost the chance to attend international medical conferences she once dreamt of… all just to give birth to a child she never wanted.
People say, “What if the baby you abort grows up and cures cancer?”
Okay — but what if the 19-year-old you deny an abortion to grows up and cures cancer?
Now she can’t afford to get an education. Instead, she has to take care of a baby. What about her? An actual living human being???
“Abortion ends potential life”… So do property disputes, war, and genocide. You only seem to care about lives when women don’t give birth to them.
Donald Trump has signed executive orders to change Mount Denali back to ‘Mount McKinley’ and the Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America.’
Mount Denali was named by the Alaska Native Koyukon Athabaskan people.