Rep Who Said Pregnancies Are a ‘Silver Lining’ of Rape Wants You to Know She’s Not Sorry

Were you wondering how things turned out for Missouri’s State Representative Tila Hubrecht, who showed her support for a fetal personhood measure faced by her state’s House by claiming that pregnancies resulting from rape are just a silver lining? Well, first, be advised that the House passed the personhood bill and the Senate will be considering it.

Next, be advised that Hubrecht’s comments made a splash in the political blogosphere and earned her rebuking from state Democrats and national women’s rights leaders.

Finally, be advised that she really doesn’t care.

From the Missouri Times:

Hubrecht responded to the backlash Thursday morning at a press conference with [Rep. Mike Moon], not rescinding her comments but urging that she simply desired to defend the “innocent.”

“I do not believe in America it is right to punish innocent people for someone else’s crime; that is not our system of justice,” she said. “The baby did nothing wrong, the woman did nothing wrong. The man who raped the woman is the one who done [sic] something wrong and should be punished.”

She has defended her right to speak out on behalf of what she perceives to be the “innocent,” but some people have alleged that she is not allowing her constituents to speak out about  beliefs. She has been, according to the Slot and social media users, deleting comments from her public Facebook page.

Less than half an hour ago, she posted her “weekly Capitol Report” to the public page with no mention of the brouhaha, so it doesn’t appear that she will respond to allegations that she has been deleting comments.

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