GOP congressional nominee suggests rape rarely leads to pregnancy

News -- June 27, 2022: At an event last month while discussing the Supreme Court possibly overturning, Virginia Republican. Yesli Vega, nominee for Congress was asked: “I’ve actually heard that it’s harder

for a woman to get pregnant if she’s been raped. Have you heard that?”

“The left will say, ‘Well what about in cases of rape or incest?'” Vega said at an event in Stafford County, Virginia. “I’m a law enforcement officer. I became a police officer in 2011. I’ve worked one case where as a result of a rape, the young woman became pregnant.”

She replied: “Well, maybe because there’s so much going on in the body. I don’t know. I haven’t, you know, seen any studies. But if I’m processing what you’re saying, it wouldn’t surprise me. Because it’s not something that’s happening organically. You’re forcing it. The individual, the male, is doing it as quickly — it’s not like, you know — and so I can see why there is truth to that. It’s unfortunate.”

Wnctimes by Marjorie Farrington