I have a very good reason NOT to believe Florida State Senator's latest claims that she was 'gang raped." Just like a couple of months back when she came out to claim she was an alleged victim of sextortion, her claims never arise until they are convenient for her to advance an agenda.
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In her desperation to carve out a rape exemption to a ban on abortions beyond 15 weeks in Florida, Senator Book is now proclaiming she was drugged and gang raped as a teen.
Considering this just came out of nowhere after 20 years of telling her story numerous times all over the place. Now she brings it up in a Hail Mary attempt to stymie a bill and yet that tactic still failed because, as we have discussed already, Bimbo Book is too inept to lead the Democrats.
Plus, she's been caught in multiple lies. She lied about being stalked and lied about rejecting GEO Group money, so who is to say this is not another of her wilf fantasies?
Also she claims she is tired of being the State Senate's "sex assault victim" but she she is the one who pulls it out every time she wants something.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-senator-lauren-book-reveals-rape-abortion-debate-20220303-d47v3pxibrcedkulrgbuosj7ra-story.html
Pleading for exemptions to 15-week abortion bill, Sen. Lauren Book reveals she was gang raped as a child
By ANTHONY MAN
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL |
MAR 03, 2022 AT 3:55 PM
Pleading to get an exemption for victims of rape, incest and human trafficking added to Florida’s plan for strict new limits on abortion, state Sen. Lauren Book dramatically described the implications of the policy in stark, personal terms — revealing publicly for the first time that she was raped by a group of men as a child.
Her Wednesday afternoon plea to colleagues went unheeded, and legislation banning almost all abortions in Florida after the 15th week of pregnancy advanced another step in the Legislature, moving closer to becoming law.
Rape and incest happen more than people realize, Book said during the first of two impassioned speeches in the Senate chamber. But victims often stay silent, resulting in many people being unaware of the extent and the impact, she said.
“Until you’ve been there you just don’t get it and you don’t understand,” she said. “And so today I’m going to tell you, I’m going to share with you more than I’ve ever shared before,” Book told her colleagues during two impassioned, sometimes tearful speeches.
She’s had previously spoken about some — but not all — of what happened: At age 11, the family’s trusted, live-in nanny – after gaining her trust for almost a year — began physically, sexually and emotionally abusing her. Book suffered years of abuse before she found the courage to speak up.
The abuser is now in prison. And Book founded the Lauren’s Kids child abuse prevention program. In 2016 she was elected to the Florida Senate. In 2021, her Democratic colleagues elected her as the party’s leader in the Senate.
She said Wednesday that she is “tired of being known as the survivor of sexual assault in the Florida Senate,” but that the legislation to restrict abortion without an exemption for victims of rape, incest and human trafficking “compel me to share even more about my past than I’ve ever done before.”
“Here’s the part you don’t know: When I was a young teen, not much older than 13, my abuser, who was a woman, took me to a friend’s house. There I was drugged. I was put in a room. And I was raped by multiple men,” she said. “I’ve not talked about this experience to anyone but my close family my close friends. Certainly never have I done so publicly. And I have never ever planned to. But for me, this is too important.”
Some rape victims who become pregnant choose to give birth and become loving mothers or give up the baby for adoption, Book said. Others don’t “want to see the face of their rapists every single time they looked at their child. And that is their choice. It takes time to make those decisions.”
She said the allowable time to have an abortion under the pending law, 15 weeks, isn’t long enough for a victim to find out she’s pregnant and make a decision — all while dealing with the trauma of the assault.
“You know what I was doing when I finally disclosed my abuse after 15 weeks? Taping newspapers to every single window of my house, with my dad and my mom and my sister and my brother, because I somehow believe that the rapist could look in the house,” she said. “It took months for me to leave my house. I became agoraphobic and couldn’t leave. I couldn’t leave. There is no prescribed path for healing for this. I was in the throes of anorexia, self-mutilation. I was merely trying to get to the next moment and the next day.
“And if, heaven forbid, I did find myself in a situation where I had to make that kind of decision, the kind of decision that we’re talking about today, my family and I would have needed more time,” Book said.
Abortion in Florida is currently legal until the 24th week of pregnancy.
The pending changes would impose a 15-week limit, with exemptions in cases of a “fatal fetal abnormality.” An abnormality is defined as a “terminal condition that, in reasonable medical judgment, regardless of the provision of life-saving medical treatment, is incompatible with” survival outside the womb. Two physicians would be required to certify that such an abnormality exists.
The abortion legislation is one among a series of incendiary issues that Republicans, who control Florida government, have advanced in the 2022 session. It’s close to becoming law with support from almost all Republicans and opposition from almost all Democrats. Gov. Ron DeSantis has indicated he supports a 15-week limit.
Book warned that allowing an exemption for victims of rape, incest and human trafficking “will be a canary in a coal mine for extremism.”
The sponsor of the legislation containing the new 15-week rule, state Sen. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, acknowledged what Book said.
“I applaud your courage to come forward and to share that story, that truth. It’s not a story. It’s what happened, more real to you than any of us can ever, ever imagine and I don’t even want to try,” Stargel said.
Stargel also shared her own intimate story, explaining as she as in the past, that she was urged to get an abortion when she was a teen but did not.
“When I got pregnant at 17 and I went to Planned Parenthood, they said I would never be anything,” Stargel said. “So we can all stand here and cry on the floor with our stories. And I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it [Planned Parenthood] is a business. But it’s not a business, these are babies. And it’s not a choice, it’s a child.”
Stargel argued forcefully against the exemption sought by Book, also explaining that to her it’s “always the hardest to discuss because somehow it’s couched in a way that makes people feel that if you vote against [allowing an exemption] that you somehow support sexual abuse or that you somehow support rape.”
She said 15 weeks “is plenty of time, a long enough time” for someone to make a decision about having an abortion. And she rejected what she said is an “assumption that that child [conceived as a result of rape or incest] can’t be loved, and that child doesn’t have the right to exist. And then that child should be killed because of the circumstances in which it was conceived. And I will reject that. I’ll reject that premise.”
And, Stargel warned, an exemption would be abused. “You’re going to have people who are going to be needlessly accused, that the woman’s going to say she was raped so she can have the abortion.”
Book at the Democrats did not ask for a roll-call vote in which supporters and opponents would have to publicly declare their positions, which allowed the amendment to fail on a voice vote. First, she made a final plea: “I wish it mattered. I wish that me telling my story and the reality matters…. And I am asking you, I am begging you, for Little Lauren.”
