Anti-Social Animal

One of the great things about “Steven Universe” is its overall celebration of the different types of female body.

Women can be curvy and bootylicious

They can be tall and skinny

They can be short and chunky

Fragile and fine-boned

Quirky and androgynous

Big and fat

And everything in between.  They all have their own beauty, their own strengths, and none is considered “better” or more desirable than anyone else.

But there’s on exception, and it’s the one big problem I have with the show.

Let’s talk about Jasper.

Awright. I love Jasper.  She’s a cool character, a great design, and I can’t bloody wait to see her return come June.  But both my husband and I have noticed something rather concerning about her that others don’t seem to have picked up on.  

Because Jasper is the only explicitly masculine Gem.

I’m not trying to police gender roles or say that something is more womanly or more manly, but if we look at Jasper’s design, it’s definitely more stereotypically masculine than that of the other gems.  Broad shoulders, huge hands and arms, bulging with muscle, no real hips, no obvious breasts.  The only comparable gem design is Ruby, and both Ruby and Sapphire, with their short statures and exaggerated expressions, are quite childlike (which I can’t help but wonder was a deliberate design choice to de-sexualize their relationship and avoid freaking out the censors further).  

And you know what?  That’s awesome.  Butch women are fucking starving for representation out there. It’s great to see a show that celebrates the diversity of womanhood showing that women can be masculine too.  

Except.

Jasper is the most naked and accepted villain of the show.

I once read a post about how you can judge most of the characters on the show by Steven’s first reaction to them.  If you think back, when Steven first met Lapis, or Peridot, he was curious and hopeful, friendly and open.  When Steven first met Jasper, his first reaction was terror.

And this still holds true even though both Peridot and Lapis openly and nakedly tried to murder Steven and his friends.

But their redemption is still considered more plausible and acceptable than Jasper’s, even though Jasper’s actions were to incapacitate and capture, not kill.

Now, this may have changed somewhat since the introduction of the Diamonds, but even still, I see a lot of fanart and posts about how alluring and mysterious Blue Diamond is, and mockery of Yellow Diamond’s costume and neck.  And a lot of posts about how frightening Jasper is, and how she deserves to be shattered.  I’ve seen a lot of Jasper-love posts too, just to be clear, but it seems like both by deliberate action on the part of the writers (giving her the most brutal, violent dialogue, for example) and the reaction of the viewers, Jasper was the most quickly accepted pure villain.

And this would be fine…if Jasper wasn’t the only butch gem.  Because there’s a nasty, nasty history of butch/masculine women being seen either as jokes or, more damagingly, as monsters.

There is a dearth of butch women in popular media, let’s face it.  And there’s a major issue of butch women being erased as well (the TV series “Hannibal” turned Margot Verger from a bodybuilding butch to Katharine fucking Isabelle, for example, though I guess we should count our blessings; the movie version deleted her entirely).  Butch women either do not exist, are jokes from cartoons, or are monsters.  And Jasper seems to be fitting this stereotype.  And I probably wouldn’t feel so strongly about this…except for Rose.

Let’s look at Rose Quartz.  I fuckin’ love Rose Quartz’s character and design, not just because she’s fat (but you go you BBW you), but because she is girly as fuck.

The image of Rose Quartz charging into battle with her badass broadsword and her lacy ballgown and her fluffy pink curls is one that I fucking treasure.  So often, it seems that being a warrior, and particularly a soldier, is inherently linked with masculinity.  Even if a woman does become a fighter, she is mocked for holding onto the “frivolous” trappings of femininity.  Even in the cases of the great female warriors in both mythology and pop culture, most of them shed what we would consider their femininity, wearing male clothing, participating in traditionally male activities, scoffing at delicate “girly” pastimes and dress.  There are exceptions, of course, most notably Buffy Summers from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, but for the most part, female warriors are “tomboys”.  Even in folklore and history, female warriors are often shown either as masculine in mannerisms (though still skinny, pretty-faced, and obviously feminine once the armour comes off), or asexual.  And here’s busty, ruddy-lipped Rose with her princess frock and her sabre, and you go girl.

But.

Let’s look at her alongside Jasper.

…hoo boy.  So we have Rose’s soft, styled pink ringlets, Jasper’s unkempt mane.  Rose’s pillowesque, defined bosom beneath the sweetheart neckline, Jasper’s flat chest under a geometric bodysuit.  Rose’s plump, kissable, full lips, Jasper’s thin mouth, easily curling into a dog-like snarl.  Rose’s soft, rounded arms and hands, Jasper’s defined musculature.  

Let’s keep in mind, please, that Rose has thus far been portrayed as the real force for good in the show.  She’s the hidden motivation behind all of the heroes’ actions, everything done in her name, as she would have wanted.  So what does Rose represent? Warmth, compassion, love, motherhood, hope, kindness, humour, gentleness.  

What does Jasper represent?  Anger, coldness, brutality, ferocity, sadism, disregard for others, bloodlust, vengefulness.

I do not think it was any accident that, in Pearl’s flashback in “Sworn to the Sword”, Rose Quartz was shown squaring off against (a) Jasper.

So why is one blatantly presented as femme and the other as butch?

Why does one make it easier to read a female character as a villain, and one as a hero?

Do I think the showrunners did this on purpose?  Fuck no!  I think they’re actively trying to avoid this kind of stereotyping.  But I think they’re victims of the same kind of subconscious programming that we all are.  They wanted Jasper to be intimidating and Rose motherly, and in the media and culture we all see, intimidating = masculine and motherly = feminine.  It’s the same bullshit we’re all fed since birth.  I mean, in this image of Jasper manhandling Lapis, would it seem as brutal and frightening if Jasper were dressed/designed as Rose?  Even though Rose and Jasper are likely of equal power?

I don’t think so.  And that’s a problem, not just with the show, but with how women are represented in media as a whole, that a woman who is masculine must be violent and brutal.

TW: ABORTION

One thing I hear repeatedly from pro-life people is that they don’t believe in abortion except in cases of rape or incest (or the mother’s life is in danger, but that’s another issue). And even if you do believe that abortion is morally and/or legally wrong except in these cases (which I don’t), here’s my question: How do you enforce it?

It’s a simple fact that most rapes go unreported; even fewer result in arrest, and even fewer result in prosecution. So, with that in mind, what are the criteria for allowing an abortion after a woman has been raped?

Is her word good enough? Because I can tell you right now, if I fell pregnant under any circumstances I would have no problem lying through my pearly whites to get the procedure done. If not, what do you need? A police report? An arrest? A guilty verdict? Because that is going to omit the vast, vast majority of rapes.

If your thought is that surely this will make victims more likely to report their rape, I would like you to explain that to the terrified 14-year-old who didn’t realise she was roofied at a party and has zero evidence that she didn’t have a consensual encounter with the nice college football champion, or the domestic violence victim too frightened to report her husband because he threatened to murder their children if she did. Also, if your criterion is a guilty verdict, you are gonna have to talk to the justice department about vastly speeding up their processes, because by the time Daddy is sentenced that zygote will be a fucking toddler.

And the other side of that…what is the penalty for a woman who receives an abortion, but is then found to have lied? What if she gets an abortion on the promise she was raped, and then the accused is acquitted? Does she get arrested next?

http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/rape-incest-and-abortion-searching-beyond-the-myths#4

However, as for my personal opinion, I have exceptions for abortion that I’ll add onto a bit later. But concerning rape and incest, based on that article above, most women choose not to abort it as it’s a healing process. Normally, I’d prefer not to have circumstances determine the worth of the unborn baby, but if it’s an especially traumatizing event, then it’s there say as it was not consensual in the first place.

Medical evidence will be able to tell if it’s rape or consensual because of signs of forced entry or not. 

http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/gynecology-and-obstetrics/domestic-violence-and-rape/medical-examination-of-the-rape-victim

Therefore, if under the suspicion of lying, the victim (may or may not be) will have to probably concede to a medical examination as the article above lists the signs of forced entry or else her claim may be seen as lying as there have been false reports of rape that exist.

These times are very tolerant towards abortions, especially since most of them tend to be out of convenience since less than 1% of abortion cases are caused by rape. If that’s either because raped victims chose to keep their baby or it was simply unreported, then who knows. However, that’s the statistic I will utilize for this situation. But if the mother was found to be lying just to have an abortion, then it will have to rely on the question of whether abortion is seen as murdering the unborn child or not. People have varying opinions on it which can then influence the judgement of her sentence, if she ever is acquitted. 

“Most women don’t abort because it’s a healing process?  And the proof of this is anecdotal evidence from a child raped at the age of twelve?  Here, have a study from two years ago by the Harvard School of Medicine which interviewed over 600 women who’d had abortions over the course of three years: over 95% of them not only did not regret the abortion, but believed it was the best choice for them.

Also, your “solution” about there always being clear physical signs of rape is one of the classic misconceptions.  Genital injuries after rape are varied and can be extremely difficult to see; this study from 2011 found that, depending on the examination technique used, the percentage of rape victims that showed genital injuries ranged from 5% to 87%.  So, depending on where the victim happens to be located and the techniques used by local medical and law enforcement staff, she could have a 95% chance of being declared “not raped” by your criteria.  

Let’s not forget, also, that there are plenty of kinds of rape that do not leave injuries.  Reproductive coercion/abuse is a massive, massive issue.  It can range from a husband sabotaging his wife’s birth control pills to some douchebag “stealthing” during a one-night stand because he doesn’t like condoms.  Those are still forms of rape, and they leave no physical signs. 

And on another note…”these times are very tolerant towards abortions”?  Are you talking about France, or Japan, maybe?  Because you can’t be referring to the US, where people have to fight their way through protesters to get into clinics, where clinics exist since so many have closed down, where multiple states restrict funding for abortion (Oklahoma on just these criteria, by the way; rape and incest only), where 24 states require counselling and wait periods (that women who have had to take time off work so they can go to out-of-state clinics because their local Planned Parenthood got shut down often cannot afford to deal with), where federal funding of abortions for federal government employees and their dependents is banned, and where the president of the country has said that women who have abortions should be punished.  Oh, and let’s not even talk about the situation in countries like Northern Ireland, where women have died after being denied an abortion.

And “convenience”…I suppose wanting to feed the rest of the family is “convenience”.  Wanting to finish your education is “convenience”.  Wanting to escape an abusive relationship is “convenience”.  Realising that you would make a terrible parent and committing a child to the hit-and-miss foster care system is “convenience”.  Not wanting to pass on crippling genetic defects is “convenience”.  Having serious health problems that would give pregnancy serious and possibly permanent physical side effects is “convenience”.  I guess, yeah, if that’s how you define “convenience” then sure, that’s why most abortions happen.  And all of these are valid reasons.  All.  Of.  Them.

Second, abortion is murder.

http://abort73.com/abortion/common_objections/

Fighting to get into a clinic doesn’t justify your refute. I would’ve expected better than that. 60 million children have died since abortion was legalized in the 1950′s, and this last year, 330,000 unborn babies have died. I would think that’s leniency to abortion, don’t you think?

You do know that women can always buy a new pack of birth control pills than just sitting there and letting it happen, lmao. And if the guy “stealths” during a one night stand, then of course he’s liable to charges, but that doesn’t deem a baby’s existence. You’re just finding excuses to diminish the value of a life.

As of concerning rape, maybe they don’t leave behind evidence or it’s coercion, however, even if signs vary, there still is evidence that can be utilized. These scenarios still are separate from the issue of a baby’s worth, but if traumatizing, then it’s their personal opinion. However, it still doesn’t determine that one’s opinion supersedes someone’s life before they’re even born. 

TW: ABORTION

One thing I hear repeatedly from pro-life people is that they don’t believe in abortion except in cases of rape or incest (or the mother’s life is in danger, but that’s another issue). And even if you do believe that abortion is morally and/or legally wrong except in these cases (which I don’t), here’s my question: How do you enforce it?

It’s a simple fact that most rapes go unreported; even fewer result in arrest, and even fewer result in prosecution. So, with that in mind, what are the criteria for allowing an abortion after a woman has been raped?

Is her word good enough? Because I can tell you right now, if I fell pregnant under any circumstances I would have no problem lying through my pearly whites to get the procedure done. If not, what do you need? A police report? An arrest? A guilty verdict? Because that is going to omit the vast, vast majority of rapes.

If your thought is that surely this will make victims more likely to report their rape, I would like you to explain that to the terrified 14-year-old who didn’t realise she was roofied at a party and has zero evidence that she didn’t have a consensual encounter with the nice college football champion, or the domestic violence victim too frightened to report her husband because he threatened to murder their children if she did. Also, if your criterion is a guilty verdict, you are gonna have to talk to the justice department about vastly speeding up their processes, because by the time Daddy is sentenced that zygote will be a fucking toddler.

And the other side of that…what is the penalty for a woman who receives an abortion, but is then found to have lied? What if she gets an abortion on the promise she was raped, and then the accused is acquitted? Does she get arrested next?

http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/rape-incest-and-abortion-searching-beyond-the-myths#4

However, as for my personal opinion, I have exceptions for abortion that I’ll add onto a bit later. But concerning rape and incest, based on that article above, most women choose not to abort it as it’s a healing process. Normally, I’d prefer not to have circumstances determine the worth of the unborn baby, but if it’s an especially traumatizing event, then it’s there say as it was not consensual in the first place.

Medical evidence will be able to tell if it’s rape or consensual because of signs of forced entry or not. 

http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/gynecology-and-obstetrics/domestic-violence-and-rape/medical-examination-of-the-rape-victim

Therefore, if under the suspicion of lying, the victim (may or may not be) will have to probably concede to a medical examination as the article above lists the signs of forced entry or else her claim may be seen as lying as there have been false reports of rape that exist.

These times are very tolerant towards abortions, especially since most of them tend to be out of convenience since less than 1% of abortion cases are caused by rape. If that’s either because raped victims chose to keep their baby or it was simply unreported, then who knows. However, that’s the statistic I will utilize for this situation. But if the mother was found to be lying just to have an abortion, then it will have to rely on the question of whether abortion is seen as murdering the unborn child or not. People have varying opinions on it which can then influence the judgement of her sentence, if she ever is acquitted. 

“Most women don’t abort because it’s a healing process?  And the proof of this is anecdotal evidence from a child raped at the age of twelve?  Here, have a study from two years ago by the Harvard School of Medicine which interviewed over 600 women who’d had abortions over the course of three years: over 95% of them not only did not regret the abortion, but believed it was the best choice for them.

Also, your “solution” about there always being clear physical signs of rape is one of the classic misconceptions.  Genital injuries after rape are varied and can be extremely difficult to see; this study from 2011 found that, depending on the examination technique used, the percentage of rape victims that showed genital injuries ranged from 5% to 87%.  So, depending on where the victim happens to be located and the techniques used by local medical and law enforcement staff, she could have a 95% chance of being declared “not raped” by your criteria.  

Let’s not forget, also, that there are plenty of kinds of rape that do not leave injuries.  Reproductive coercion/abuse is a massive, massive issue.  It can range from a husband sabotaging his wife’s birth control pills to some douchebag “stealthing” during a one-night stand because he doesn’t like condoms.  Those are still forms of rape, and they leave no physical signs. 

And on another note…”these times are very tolerant towards abortions”?  Are you talking about France, or Japan, maybe?  Because you can’t be referring to the US, where people have to fight their way through protesters to get into clinics, where clinics exist since so many have closed down, where multiple states restrict funding for abortion (Oklahoma on just these criteria, by the way; rape and incest only), where 24 states require counselling and wait periods (that women who have had to take time off work so they can go to out-of-state clinics because their local Planned Parenthood got shut down often cannot afford to deal with), where federal funding of abortions for federal government employees and their dependents is banned, and where the president of the country has said that women who have abortions should be punished.  Oh, and let’s not even talk about the situation in countries like Northern Ireland, where women have died after being denied an abortion.

And “convenience”…I suppose wanting to feed the rest of the family is “convenience”.  Wanting to finish your education is “convenience”.  Wanting to escape an abusive relationship is “convenience”.  Realising that you would make a terrible parent and committing a child to the hit-and-miss foster care system is “convenience”.  Not wanting to pass on crippling genetic defects is “convenience”.  Having serious health problems that would give pregnancy serious and possibly permanent physical side effects is “convenience”.  I guess, yeah, if that’s how you define “convenience” then sure, that’s why most abortions happen.  And all of these are valid reasons.  All.  Of.  Them.

Second, abortion is murder.

http://abort73.com/abortion/common_objections/

Fighting to get into a clinic doesn’t justify your refute. I would’ve expected better than that. 60 million children have died since abortion was legalized in the 1950′s, and this last year, 330,000 unborn babies have died. I would think that’s leniency to abortion, don’t you think?

You do know that women can always buy a new pack of birth control pills than just sitting there and letting it happen, lmao. And if the guy “stealths” during a one night stand, then of course he’s liable to charges, but that doesn’t deem a baby’s existence. You’re just finding excuses to diminish the value of a life.

As of concerning rape, maybe they don’t leave behind evidence or it’s coercion, however, even if signs vary, there still is evidence that can be utilized. These scenarios still are separate from the issue of a baby’s worth, but if traumatizing, then it’s their personal opinion. However, it still doesn’t determine that one’s opinion supersedes someone’s life before they’re even born. 

TW: ABORTION

One thing I hear repeatedly from pro-life people is that they don’t believe in abortion except in cases of rape or incest (or the mother’s life is in danger, but that’s another issue). And even if you do believe that abortion is morally and/or legally wrong except in these cases (which I don’t), here’s my question: How do you enforce it?

It’s a simple fact that most rapes go unreported; even fewer result in arrest, and even fewer result in prosecution. So, with that in mind, what are the criteria for allowing an abortion after a woman has been raped?

Is her word good enough? Because I can tell you right now, if I fell pregnant under any circumstances I would have no problem lying through my pearly whites to get the procedure done. If not, what do you need? A police report? An arrest? A guilty verdict? Because that is going to omit the vast, vast majority of rapes.

If your thought is that surely this will make victims more likely to report their rape, I would like you to explain that to the terrified 14-year-old who didn’t realise she was roofied at a party and has zero evidence that she didn’t have a consensual encounter with the nice college football champion, or the domestic violence victim too frightened to report her husband because he threatened to murder their children if she did. Also, if your criterion is a guilty verdict, you are gonna have to talk to the justice department about vastly speeding up their processes, because by the time Daddy is sentenced that zygote will be a fucking toddler.

And the other side of that…what is the penalty for a woman who receives an abortion, but is then found to have lied? What if she gets an abortion on the promise she was raped, and then the accused is acquitted? Does she get arrested next?

http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/rape-incest-and-abortion-searching-beyond-the-myths#4

However, as for my personal opinion, I have exceptions for abortion that I’ll add onto a bit later. But concerning rape and incest, based on that article above, most women choose not to abort it as it’s a healing process. Normally, I’d prefer not to have circumstances determine the worth of the unborn baby, but if it’s an especially traumatizing event, then it’s there say as it was not consensual in the first place.

Medical evidence will be able to tell if it’s rape or consensual because of signs of forced entry or not. 

http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/gynecology-and-obstetrics/domestic-violence-and-rape/medical-examination-of-the-rape-victim

Therefore, if under the suspicion of lying, the victim (may or may not be) will have to probably concede to a medical examination as the article above lists the signs of forced entry or else her claim may be seen as lying as there have been false reports of rape that exist.

These times are very tolerant towards abortions, especially since most of them tend to be out of convenience since less than 1% of abortion cases are caused by rape. If that’s either because raped victims chose to keep their baby or it was simply unreported, then who knows. However, that’s the statistic I will utilize for this situation. But if the mother was found to be lying just to have an abortion, then it will have to rely on the question of whether abortion is seen as murdering the unborn child or not. People have varying opinions on it which can then influence the judgement of her sentence, if she ever is acquitted. 

“Most women don’t abort because it’s a healing process?  And the proof of this is anecdotal evidence from a child raped at the age of twelve?  Here, have a study from two years ago by the Harvard School of Medicine which interviewed over 600 women who’d had abortions over the course of three years: over 95% of them not only did not regret the abortion, but believed it was the best choice for them.

Also, your “solution” about there always being clear physical signs of rape is one of the classic misconceptions.  Genital injuries after rape are varied and can be extremely difficult to see; this study from 2011 found that, depending on the examination technique used, the percentage of rape victims that showed genital injuries ranged from 5% to 87%.  So, depending on where the victim happens to be located and the techniques used by local medical and law enforcement staff, she could have a 95% chance of being declared “not raped” by your criteria.  

Let’s not forget, also, that there are plenty of kinds of rape that do not leave injuries.  Reproductive coercion/abuse is a massive, massive issue.  It can range from a husband sabotaging his wife’s birth control pills to some douchebag “stealthing” during a one-night stand because he doesn’t like condoms.  Those are still forms of rape, and they leave no physical signs. 

And on another note…”these times are very tolerant towards abortions”?  Are you talking about France, or Japan, maybe?  Because you can’t be referring to the US, where people have to fight their way through protesters to get into clinics, where clinics exist since so many have closed down, where multiple states restrict funding for abortion (Oklahoma on just these criteria, by the way; rape and incest only), where 24 states require counselling and wait periods (that women who have had to take time off work so they can go to out-of-state clinics because their local Planned Parenthood got shut down often cannot afford to deal with), where federal funding of abortions for federal government employees and their dependents is banned, and where the president of the country has said that women who have abortions should be punished.  Oh, and let’s not even talk about the situation in countries like Northern Ireland, where women have died after being denied an abortion.

And “convenience”…I suppose wanting to feed the rest of the family is “convenience”.  Wanting to finish your education is “convenience”.  Wanting to escape an abusive relationship is “convenience”.  Realising that you would make a terrible parent and committing a child to the hit-and-miss foster care system is “convenience”.  Not wanting to pass on crippling genetic defects is “convenience”.  Having serious health problems that would give pregnancy serious and possibly permanent physical side effects is “convenience”.  I guess, yeah, if that’s how you define “convenience” then sure, that’s why most abortions happen.  And all of these are valid reasons.  All.  Of.  Them.

Second, abortion is murder.

http://abort73.com/abortion/common_objections/

Fighting to get into a clinic doesn’t justify your refute. I would’ve expected better than that. 60 million children have died since abortion was legalized in the 1950′s, and this last year, 330,000 unborn babies have died. I would think that’s leniency to abortion, don’t you think?

You do know that women can always buy a new pack of birth control pills than just sitting there and letting it happen, lmao. And if the guy “stealths” during a one night stand, then of course he’s liable to charges, but that doesn’t deem a baby’s existence. You’re just finding excuses to diminish the value of a life.

As of concerning rape, maybe they don’t leave behind evidence or it’s coercion, however, even if signs vary, there still is evidence that can be utilized. These scenarios still are separate from the issue of a baby’s worth, but if traumatizing, then it’s their personal opinion. However, it still doesn’t determine that one’s opinion supersedes someone’s life before they’re even born. 

TW: ABORTION

One thing I hear repeatedly from pro-life people is that they don’t believe in abortion except in cases of rape or incest (or the mother’s life is in danger, but that’s another issue). And even if you do believe that abortion is morally and/or legally wrong except in these cases (which I don’t), here’s my question: How do you enforce it?

It’s a simple fact that most rapes go unreported; even fewer result in arrest, and even fewer result in prosecution. So, with that in mind, what are the criteria for allowing an abortion after a woman has been raped?

Is her word good enough? Because I can tell you right now, if I fell pregnant under any circumstances I would have no problem lying through my pearly whites to get the procedure done. If not, what do you need? A police report? An arrest? A guilty verdict? Because that is going to omit the vast, vast majority of rapes.

If your thought is that surely this will make victims more likely to report their rape, I would like you to explain that to the terrified 14-year-old who didn’t realise she was roofied at a party and has zero evidence that she didn’t have a consensual encounter with the nice college football champion, or the domestic violence victim too frightened to report her husband because he threatened to murder their children if she did. Also, if your criterion is a guilty verdict, you are gonna have to talk to the justice department about vastly speeding up their processes, because by the time Daddy is sentenced that zygote will be a fucking toddler.

And the other side of that…what is the penalty for a woman who receives an abortion, but is then found to have lied? What if she gets an abortion on the promise she was raped, and then the accused is acquitted? Does she get arrested next?

http://www.abortionfacts.com/reardon/rape-incest-and-abortion-searching-beyond-the-myths#4

However, as for my personal opinion, I have exceptions for abortion that I’ll add onto a bit later. But concerning rape and incest, based on that article above, most women choose not to abort it as it’s a healing process. Normally, I’d prefer not to have circumstances determine the worth of the unborn baby, but if it’s an especially traumatizing event, then it’s there say as it was not consensual in the first place.

Medical evidence will be able to tell if it’s rape or consensual because of signs of forced entry or not. 

http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/gynecology-and-obstetrics/domestic-violence-and-rape/medical-examination-of-the-rape-victim

Therefore, if under the suspicion of lying, the victim (may or may not be) will have to probably concede to a medical examination as the article above lists the signs of forced entry or else her claim may be seen as lying as there have been false reports of rape that exist.

These times are very tolerant towards abortions, especially since most of them tend to be out of convenience since less than 1% of abortion cases are caused by rape. If that’s either because raped victims chose to keep their baby or it was simply unreported, then who knows. However, that’s the statistic I will utilize for this situation. But if the mother was found to be lying just to have an abortion, then it will have to rely on the question of whether abortion is seen as murdering the unborn child or not. People have varying opinions on it which can then influence the judgement of her sentence, if she ever is acquitted. 

“Most women don’t abort because it’s a healing process?  And the proof of this is anecdotal evidence from a child raped at the age of twelve?  Here, have a study from two years ago by the Harvard School of Medicine which interviewed over 600 women who’d had abortions over the course of three years: over 95% of them not only did not regret the abortion, but believed it was the best choice for them.

Also, your “solution” about there always being clear physical signs of rape is one of the classic misconceptions.  Genital injuries after rape are varied and can be extremely difficult to see; this study from 2011 found that, depending on the examination technique used, the percentage of rape victims that showed genital injuries ranged from 5% to 87%.  So, depending on where the victim happens to be located and the techniques used by local medical and law enforcement staff, she could have a 95% chance of being declared “not raped” by your criteria.  

Let’s not forget, also, that there are plenty of kinds of rape that do not leave injuries.  Reproductive coercion/abuse is a massive, massive issue.  It can range from a husband sabotaging his wife’s birth control pills to some douchebag “stealthing” during a one-night stand because he doesn’t like condoms.  Those are still forms of rape, and they leave no physical signs. 

And on another note...”these times are very tolerant towards abortions”?  Are you talking about France, or Japan, maybe?  Because you can’t be referring to the US, where people have to fight their way through protesters to get into clinics, where clinics exist since so many have closed down, where multiple states restrict funding for abortion (Oklahoma on just these criteria, by the way; rape and incest only), where 24 states require counselling and wait periods (that women who have had to take time off work so they can go to out-of-state clinics because their local Planned Parenthood got shut down often cannot afford to deal with), where federal funding of abortions for federal government employees and their dependents is banned, and where the president of the country has said that women who have abortions should be punished.  Oh, and let’s not even talk about the situation in countries like Northern Ireland, where women have died after being denied an abortion.

And “convenience”...I suppose wanting to feed the rest of the family is “convenience”.  Wanting to finish your education is “convenience”.  Wanting to escape an abusive relationship is “convenience”.  Realising that you would make a terrible parent and committing a child to the hit-and-miss foster care system is “convenience”.  Not wanting to pass on crippling genetic defects is “convenience”.  Having serious health problems that would give pregnancy serious and possibly permanent physical side effects is “convenience”.  I guess, yeah, if that’s how you define “convenience” then sure, that’s why most abortions happen.  And all of these are valid reasons.  All.  Of.  Them.

Given the strange appearance of the platypus, it’s perhaps no surprise that European scientists thought it was a joke.  Naturalist George Shaw stated that it was “impossible not to entertain some doubts as to the genuine nature of the animal, and to surmise that there might have been practised some arts of deception in its structure.”  He even took a pair of scissors to the taxidermied specimen to check for stitches. 

The platypus has a very unique pair of eyes.  Double cone cells are photoreceptors found in the eyes of most fish, birds, and reptiles, but that are never seen in the placental mammals.  The platypus is one of only a very few mammals that have double cone cells in their eyes.  In fact, recent studies have suggested that the eyes of the platypus are much more similar to the eyes of certain hagfish and lampreys than to most other animals.