Sentence examples for narrow rape from inspiring English sources

The latter bill was tabled after some Republicans took issue with the narrow rape exception, which would require women to have reported the rape to the police in order to qualify.

The House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy this year, which Paul has endorsed, but GOP leadership canceled the vote because some members objected to the narrow rape exemption.

Slated for a vote on the anniversary of Roe, the bill was pulled at the 11th hour because some Republican women convinced leadership that the narrow rape exception might remind voters of Republican Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" comment or Republican Richard Mourdock's claim that a pregnancy from rape is a "gift of God".

At the same time, Mr. Ryan was a co-sponsor last year, along with Mr. Akin and other House Republicans, of a bill that seemed intended to narrow the rape exception, inserting the language "forcible rape".

The FBI's current narrow definition of rape has created complications for law enforcement agencies, which can't report all of the rapes they prosecute for inclusion in federal statistics if their state or locality has a broader definition.

They would depart slightly from the extremist Republican Party platform by allowing narrow exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the woman.

California is one of many states with such a narrow definition of rape, and lawmakers are trying to change that.

At first, it seemed that the restrictions would reaffirm existing Hyde Amendment provisions that federal funds would only be available to Medicaid recipients in the narrow cases of rape, incest or endangerment of the woman's life.

Akin, Ryan et al. have made it their business to designate which rapes are legitimate, joining up to push Orwellian legislation last year to narrow the definition of rape to "forcible rape".

The idea of outlawing any exceptions for abortion is not new in American political discourse or in legislation, nor are proposals to narrow the definition of rape to distinguish between what some call "forcible rape" and cases involving statutory rape or even some types of date rape.

"Unfortunately, they've become part and parcel of the modern Republican Party's platform toward women's health, as Congressional Republicans like Paul Ryan have worked to outlaw all abortions and even narrow the definition of rape.