The latest Republican to fall into the party’s anti-sex-ed trap is Yesli Vega, a contender to represent Virginia’s Seventh District in Congress who apparently believes a person may not actually be able to get pregnant from rape
Yesli Vega Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images A sentence I would like to stop writing: Another GOP candidate appears willfully confused about what rape is and how rape works. “because it’s not something that’s happening organically” and “the male is doing it quickly.
Vega, a Prince William County supervisor, sheriff’s deputy, and winner of the recent Republican primary for her district, invoked exactly that defense to the Washington Post. “For all the left-wing bloggers and media, as a mother of two children, yes, I’m fully aware of how women get pregnant,” she said, though after consulting two audio clips Axios published on Monday, I am not convinced.
Vega then answered a question from the crowd. “I’ve actually heard that it’s harder for a woman to get pregnant if she’s been raped. Have you heard that?” someone asked her. Vega’s response, with my emphasis: Well, maybe because there’s so much going on in the body. I don’t know. I haven’t, you know, seen any studies. But if I’m processing what you’re saying, it wouldn’t surprise me. Because it’s not something that’s happening organically. You’re forcing it. The individual, the male, is doing it as quickly — it’s not like, you know — and so I can see why there is truth to that. It’s unfortunate.
No part of this comes close to being correct, though it arguably underscores the desperate need for fact-based sex education as a national standard. Anyway, Vega did not refute the clips’ authenticity but did say in her statement that her political opponents “would rather lie and twist the truth” than talk about abortion. Her Democratic opponent, incumbent representative Abigail Spanberger, supports abortion rights and has openly criticized the Supreme Court’s recent ruling.
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