Girl We Hate: Babies From Incest=Lemonade? WTF?? Edition

Score one more for the Republican team! Just when you think their political candidates couldn’t get ANY  MORE INSANE, they really set a new bar. Kudos for their persistence.

Sharron Angle is a former Nevada Assemblywoman who is currently vying for Harry Reid’s Senate spot.

She is batshit crazy.

Among her many, many strong views, you will find an agreement with L. Ron Hubbard’s “natural medicine” take when it comes to curing addiction (if America votes a Scientologist into any kind of political office, I really am leaving. And not just the ole’ “I’ll move to Canada” sentiment we all tossed around when Sarah Palin become a Vice Presidential candidate. I would seriously move to Toronto. It’s lovely and clean there) and the belief that people on unemployment are “spoiled.”

But lil Miss Sharron over there is also very much pro-life. Cool—everyone has a right to their own opinion. Except when that opinion includes forcing victims of incest to see the bright side of their unfortunate pregnancy. Yay! Here’s that delightful snippet from Crazy Town’s interview on the Alan Stock Show.

Stock: What do you say then to a young girl, I am going to place it as he said it, when a young girl is raped by her father, let’s say, and she is pregnant. How do you explain this to her in terms of wanting her to go through the process of having the baby?

Angle: I think that two wrongs don’t make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade.

Oh, gosh, of COURSE! We’ve all been looking at this the wrong way! Here I was thinking that any victim of rape or incest who then has to deal with an unwanted pregnancy as a result is dealing with one of the worst kinds of horror imaginable. Little did I know that all it takes to turn things around is a little positivity. A wee bit o’ sunshine, if you will. Take that “bitter” hand you’ve been dealt and turn it into a sweet and delicious treat!

Listen, if you’re of the mindset who believes that abortion is wrong in every single case, even for victims of rape and incest, more power to you. I wholeheartedly disagree but you have a right to your own opinion. But don’t you DARE patronize victims and liken the unimaginable torment they’ve endured to a simple bad day that you can turn around on a dime.

Sharron Angle disgusts me and I feel absolutely ashamed to even share a gender with her. But what’s more disheartening to me is the fact that there are many people out there who agree with her. People who have never been touched by tragedy even comparable to rape or sexual abuse and yet deem themselves righteous enough to speak on behalf of those victims. I can’t even imagine what it is to be a victim of such a crime, let alone have to deal with a pregnancy from it afterwards (and for those hospital personnel who refuse the morning-after pill to victims of rape because of “morality issues”, you are also the subject of much of my loathing), so why do so many other people presume to?

Why do we live in a country where front-page headlines showcase that it’s seemingly more acceptable to judge such victims and their subsequent actions, instead of supporting them whole-heartedly through every single step of their long and arduous recovery process? Why do parents spend more time teaching their children to become embodiments of the black-and-white sides of the argument (“You are Pro-Life!” “You are Pro-Choice”) instead of equipping them with the knowledge, skills, and emotional maturity it takes to fully empathize with people who have been abused, raped, etc?

I don’t have children. Maybe one day I will or maybe I won’t. But if I ever do, I will take a cue from my parents who taught me that idealistic beliefs, religious convictions, and the like are never as important as empathy and human kindness—and the ability to realize that you don’t know it all.

So, just shut the fuck up Sharron Angle and please return back to whatever demon underworld  you came from.