All posts tagged "Rape Victims"

Reactions were mounting on Monday as news surfaced about an incident involving two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who tackled a rape survivor to the ground just moments after she testified in a New Jersey courtroom.

David J. Bier, Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies, shared an excerpt from an Atlantic report on X about an incident last year involving a woman who had survived rape and told her story in court about her perpetrator and ex-boyfriend, who she was seeking a restraining order against after he put her in a chokehold and sexually assaulted her, causing her to lose consciousness. When she stepped outside the courthouse, she was suddenly tackled to the ground by two plainclothes ICE officers.

Several public figures and prominent voices online spoke out in response. ...

Rape victims are still paying medical bills related to their assaults, despite federal efforts to lift that burden, reported PBS.

The Missouri Senate on Tuesday voted down an amendment that would have exempted rape victims from a proposed three-day waiting period for abortions, three times the current 24-hour wait.

A court in Argentina ruled Friday that a 14-year old rape victim could have an abortion, overturning a lower court decision barring the girl from seeking the procedure which had triggered outrage.

The leader of an online men’s right group defended comments made by his hand-picked successor, who said he lacked empathy for rape victims.

This weekend, R. Tod Kelly wrote a damning profile of the new online leader of the Men's Rights Movement (MRM), John Hembling, currently the editor in chief of A Voice for Men (AV4M).