GOP TO PUSH FOR NEW BILL TO EXONERATE THOSE CONVICTED OF RAPE IN CASES WHERE WOMAN GOT PREGNANT

By R J Shulman

WASHINGTON – (PTSD News Service) – Representative Phil Gingrey of Georgia has introduced a new bill that calls for those men convicted of rape in which the so-called victim became pregnant to be immediately exonerated and released from prison.  The bill called the Legitimate Rape and Fatherhood Support Act will require states to revisit cases in which there were rape convictions where the woman became pregnant. 

“Since a woman cannot get pregnant if she is uptight and can’t ovulate, then it is obvious that if she got pregnant she was not upset at the time she had intercourse or her body would have shut right down and no pregnancy could have occurred,” Gringrey, a licensed MD and co-chair of the Republican Doctors Caucus said. “We hear all the liberal press talking a good game about the rights of women, but what about these men who had legitimate sex with these women who for no good reason then turned on them and accused them of rape. What about these men's rights?”

The bill has a good chance of passing the Republican house.  House Speaker John Boehner has placed the bill on the agenda ahead of bills about jobs, crime prevention, immigration reform, plant safety, help for the middle class, bank reform and education.  “It’s only fair that if later DNA evidence can get killers off of death row, than new conception science should be used to free men wrongfully convicted of rape,” Boehner said.