GOP congressman, asked if he's OK with a child rape victim carrying out pregnancy: "You don’t know you were raped for 2 months?"

 

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GOP congressman, asked if he's OK with a child rape victim carrying out pregnancy: "You don’t know you were raped for 2 months?"

From CNN's Amir Vera

Rep. Warren Davidson (CNN)

Republican Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio spoke with CNN's Pamela Brown Sunday to discuss the Supreme Court ruling that limits abortion access as well as Ohio's heartbeat bill, which survived an injunction Friday. The bill bans abortions after six weeks and has no exceptions for rape or incest.

Brown asked Davidson the same question twice: Whether he'd be comfortable with a 12-year-old girl carrying out a pregnancy to term if she was raped?

The first time, Davidson said: "So let’s say someone who was raped, you don’t know you were raped for two months? I think it’s incorporated in to deal with that, now that is a compromise. People believe that life begins at conception, that's what the science says."

Brown noted that the science is not conclusive on that aspect, and there is no consensus that life begins at conception.

The second time, Davidson said: “I fully support Ohio’s law and I commend, frankly, our governor and our legislature for passing it where previous administrations had failed ... I think it’s a great law and it is a compromise. And like, I say, rape is raised as an objection but the heartbeat bill already deals with that ... It’s hard to conceive of somebody who doesn’t know they were raped for two months."j

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Here's the problem and I have seen this sort of thing first hand. Often even 18 to 25 year old girls haven't been told what sex is by their parents. why?

I'm not certain I can answer "Why?" However, I can tell you that many parents don't tell their children anything. One lady I met said her parents said you get pregnant through kissing and this is what she believed from ages 18 to 22 years of age. 

So, if this is true of someone 18 to 22 or even 25 years of age imagine a younger child who hasn't been told anything not understanding that she was raped?

The Congressman isn't in touch with the reality that many young women live in like this.