The research letter, published by JAMA Internal Medicine, estimated that nearly 520,000 rapes were associated with 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states.

The research letter, published by JAMA Internal Medicine, estimated that nearly 520,000 rapes were associated with 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states.

More than 64,000 women and girls became pregnant because of rape in states that implemented abortion bans after Roe v. Wade was overruled, according to a new research estimate published online Wednesday.

The research letter, published by JAMA Internal Medicine and headed up by the medical director at Planned Parenthood of Montana, estimated that nearly 520,000 rapes were associated with 64,565 pregnancies across 14 states, most of which had no exceptions that allowed for terminations of pregnancies that occurred as a result of rape.

Texas topped the list, with 45% of the rape-related pregnancies occurring within the state, researchers estimated. Ninety-one percent of the estimated rape-related pregnancies took place in states without exceptions for rape, according to the researchers.

“Few (if any)” of the women and girls who became pregnant because of rape “obtained in-state abortions legally, suggesting that rape exceptions fail to provide reasonable access to abortion for survivors,” the research letter said.

      • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
        18·
        10 months ago

        You know what is mind boggling to me?

        No matter how frustrated I got with my sex life with my ex, the thought of rape was very much a “why would you do that to someone you care about” thought response.

        That says to me that the perpetrators lack the ability to really care or empathize.

        How many of those 520k rapes resulted in any prosecution? How many rapists are still out there, going about life lacking any form of human empathy?

        • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
          22·
          10 months ago

          That’s because rape is not about sex or being horny. Rape is about violence. It’s a power play where the perpetrator’s goal is to dominate and harm someone else to boost their own selfish and misguided self esteem.

        • 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websiteEnglish
          91·
          10 months ago

          Fuckin right man. My wife has said that if I “need” sex and she’s not in the mood, she’ll just let me do it. I tell her I can’t do that, just feels wrong and rapey if she’s not into it.

    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      I can only hope these kinds of numbers mean there’s a “few” highly prolific rapists out there doing a whole lot of it, but that would be way too optimistic I suppose?