There was gobs and gobs of controversy over the phrase "forcible rape" being included in legislation restricting public money paying for abortions, but of course the term has been used for decades to distinguish it from "statutory rape," which may or may not be consensual to the parties involved (it usually is consensual to them but not to outraged parents) but the law calls it rape because of the age of one of the parties being under the age of consent (typically 16). I would bet some of the people who protested didn't even know what in the hell the term "forcible rape" meant; certainly idiots like Jon Stewart sure don't understand it when he ridiculed it as being redundant. Well, no it isn't when you figure in statutory rape.
It reminds me of all of the nonsense over the use of the word "niggardly" being somehow a racist term.
Anyway, rather than be ridiculed, our politicians decided to change the wording.
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