Libertarian presidential hopeful Ron Paul said last week that he’d be okay with emergency contraception for victims of “honest rape.”
Which raises the question, “What is honest rape?”
Is it rape from the sweat of the hardworking rapist’s brow? As opposed to the good-for-nothing entitlement rape we see so much of nowadays?
Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning investigative journalist and In These Times staff writer who writes the blog Duly Noted. Her stories have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, Slate, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. Her photographs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times’ City Room. She also blogs at The Hillman Blog (http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillmanblog), a publication of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, a non-profit that honors journalism in the public interest.
