The church also rejected the right of raped woman to seek an abortion.
Advocates for the rights of rape victims emphasized the concept of date rape to promote awareness that all sexual activity requires explicit consent from both parties.
Democrats, like President Obama, are understandably trying to keep the discussion on the ground most favorable to them by talking only about the rights of rape victims.
Not long ago she was a young and vibrant woman working as an activist campaigning for the rights of rape survivors and street children and providing them with practical support.
It's a story that has become grimy with symbolism about Hollywood privilege, 1970s California indulgence, imperfect parenting, judicial pandering and inconsistency, tortured creative temperament, and the rights of rape victims.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut, a Republican, said the state law represented "an earnest compromise" between the rights of rape victims and the interests of health care practitioners who had moral or religious scruples against emergency contraception.
"Whatever your views on the decisions, deportation to places of torture, DNA retention and the rights of rape victims can hardly be described as 'small claims' to the people concerned," Shami Chakrabarti, the organisation's director, said.
Why are Republicans standing up for the rights of rapists, and trampling on the rights of rape victims?
In an article this week in Cosmopolitan magazine, senior political writer Jill Filipovic investigates the lack of access to safe abortions in Nigeria and the rights of rape survivors.
That's right, allegations of rape do not change our opinion of this very good, very expensive footballer.
