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Lynne Featherstone

Lynne Featherstone MP writes… George Galloway’s comments on rape are totally unacceptable, and they have an effect

By Lynne Featherstone | Wed 22nd August 2012 - 3:23 pm

In recent days, on both sides of the Atlantic, there have been not one, but two expressions of the kind of attitudes on rape you had hoped died with the Dark Ages.

First, a US Republican Senate Candidate, Todd Akin, suggested that most women do not become pregnant after being raped as their body can, and I quote, ‘shut that whole thing down’.

Then Britain’s own George Galloway, while offering his opinions on the Julian Assange case, took it upon himself to assert that certain acts of sexual violence are nothing more than ‘bad manners’, and that having …

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