Planned Parenthood

Sexual Assault in the United States
On May 10, 1998 a thirteen year old girl was forced to lose dignity, pride and state of mind when a stranger took advantage of her without consent. After brutaly raping the young child, the man carried on with his life as if he had no conscience while the girl was mentally scarred for life. “After he was done, he got dressed and walked out of the bathroom like nothing happened. He left me there with my tears. When he walked out the door, he took with him my pride, my security and my virginity” (Tracy). After the victim was able to muster up enough courage to share her experience with her family and local authority, justice was not immediately served.
New laws must be passed to make victims feel more protected, …show more content…
Planned Parenthood organizations offers programs that have nurses who are specially trained to collect evidence and provide medical care following a sexual assault. According to Planned Parenthood, “You do not have to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation in order to receive a medical forensic exam at no cost. The National Rape Hotline should be able to direct you to the nearest SANE program” (Planned Parenthood). “The American Health Care Act by the Trump Administration would deny Planned Parenthood clinics Medicaid reimbursements for serving low-income patients” (Frothingham). “In the state of Arkansas, a disturbing slate of bills that will place numerous restrictions abortion access, including a provision that will force women to notify the father of the fetus before they can terminate their pregnancy” (Bess). This new law is problematic because females that were victims of incestial or stanger rape, would have to ask their rapist for permission to discharge the fetus. If the victim was raped by a stranger or someone they do not have contact with it, by law they would not be able to rid themselves of the physical pain that came from the previous molestation. Victims, who are often underage, would have to carry that burden for the rest of their lives and raise a child out of guilt. These …show more content…
This is an example of rape culture. Rape culture is a society or environment whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing or trivializing sexual assault and abuse. Promoters of rape culture would often blame the victims to putting themselves into that predicament by their suggestive body language. It is not justified to turn down accusations because both parties were intoxicated at the moment. If the victim did not give you permission to touch them in a sexual way, then the action was indeed rape. Those who trivialize sexual assault, share sexually explicit jokes, tolerate sexual harassment and publicly scrutinized a victim’s dress and motives are supporting rape culture; you do not have to rape someone to support it. Brock Turner, a former Stanford University swimmer was sentenced to six months in county jail after being convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious, intoxicated woman in 2015. This case has caused a nation uproar because of Turner’s mild sentencing. “They accused him of giving Brock Turner a light sentence because he was affluent and white. They even said Persky was biased because he, too, had been a student-athlete at

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