Many Democrats in the past year have accused their Republican opponents of not caring about rape victims.

First, the Massachusetts Democratic party sent out a mailer during the Senate campaign claiming that “1,736 women were raped in Massachusetts in 2008. Scott Brown wants hospitals to turn them all away.” In a TV ad, Alan Grayson accused his Republican opponent of trying to “deny battered women medical care.” The Georgia Democratic party cut an ad accusing GOP gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal of fighting to “weaken the rape shield law.”

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