Has anyone seen this already?
No.
A Spanish cleric says it's OK for women who have had an abortion to be raped.
Here is the link.
Are you saying that this:
quote:
'a woman who has an abortion gives a man absolute licence to abuse her body without restrictions because she has committed a sin as if she had a right to do so'.
... is saying that its OK for women who have had an abortion to be raped?
While its a pretty fucked-up thing to say, it doesn't say to me that its OK for the woman to be raped.
I think what he was trying to say was: because she's acting as if she has a right to abuse her body without restriction, then she's allowing for others to do the same (not that I agree with that statement). But that doesn't mean that others doing that something would be OK. Rape would still be wrong, but since she's done something, that he feels is, so terrible, then she'd have no business complaining about something else, that he feels is, not so terrible. But I think he was trying to express how bad he thought abortion was, not how not-bad he thought rape was.
That being said, it was a bad thing to say and he should retract it and appologize. The phrase "gives a man absolute licence to abuse her body without restrictions" certainly sounds like rape, and he does seem to be legitimizing it a bit. I think he probably could have phrased it better, or maybe there's a lot lost in translation.
However, if he does think that its OK to rape women who've had an abortion, then he needs to be fired.