The history of suppression of knowledge regarding abortion and other reproductive health considerations is rather quite easily characterized in the U.S., for instance, by the number of legislative amendments and executive gag orders constraining abortion, contraception, and related information.
Meanwhile, the last time I recall encountering some version of this argument, forced vaginal penetration under color of law was actually the reason.
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Note aside: It's actually almost funny; I went looking for a link to throw into the preceding paragraph in order to make the point, and what I came across first was a five year-old discussion among the moderators; it's not exactly amazing how much things
don't change, around here. Except it's not funny. A different search suggests I wasn't quite hard enough on the argument over the course several years when it was a partisan favorite in the United States:
May, 2012↗, on Virginia ["Ultrasound State"] and Pennsylvania ["Just Close Your Eyes State"];
June, 2012↗, shortly after "Governor Ultrasound" [Bob McDonnell, R-VA] was scuttlebutted into Mitt Romney's veep pool;
August, 2012↗, after Sean Spicer, then RNC communications director, fumbled a question about abortion and rape in the context of the 2012 Republican Party platform and multiple high-profile GOP candidates badly botching discussions of sex crime; it was easy enough to recall in
February, 2013↗ when "Governor Ultrasound" found himself countenancing the possibility of becoming "Governor Three-Fifths", which ought to make some sort of point about the conservative politics involved; it was also unavoidable when the right-wing Attorney General of Virginia, a guy they actually called "Cooch", was running to replace Governor Ultrasound, and the man running to replace him, Mark Obenshain, had sought in the Virginia Senate to require women to report suspected miscarriages,
i.e., menstrual irregularity, under force of law with jail time among the penalties for failure or refusal, and, frankly, who can imagine being "Governor Menstrual Inspector"; indeed, Cooch's part in all that earned him a
joke↗, that year, about being "Attorney General Ultrasound", and part of that requires taking the moment to appreciate a government in which the man running to replace a scandal-plagued governor is also investigating that governor while also being investigated for his own ethics scsandal, and even still it ought to count for something that the Party chose, for their Lt. Gov. candidate, a preacher who could not spell the word "commandment" properly on the cover of his book about the Ten Commandments; by the time we get around to
2014↗, the argument took a hit, and it's worth noting that law in question, the "Woman's Right to Know Act", passed in 2011; it's about this point, as it happens, that one moderator's discussion occurs, but it is its own thing, involving political complaint against hard critiques of observable behavior, and the catalyst is a related, albeit separate, subject; in
April, 2014↗, we learned from a man in Missouri that forced penetration under law in order to affect behavioral outcomes among women is much akin to "making a decision to buy a car", and his opinion becomes important because, well, he was sponsoring one of these forced penetration bills; in
May, 2015↗, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, as part of his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, complained about "'gotcha' media" while describing forced penetration under law as part of "just a cool thing out there";
July, 2015↗ saw other Republicans, including former governor Rick Perry [R-TX] and then Gov. Chris Christie [R-NJ], as well as then pollster Kellyann Conway, trying to help push Walker's message as something more broadly conservative and Republican; Idaho Republicans took a really weird go at it in
February, 2016↗; I had cause to recall it again,
later that year↗, considering the potential "emergence of that long-rumored silent majority"; it's not so much that the issue has gone away, but, rather, that the not entirely unpredictable confluence of supremacist ideologies and methods swirling through American politics, of late, has actually blown away the subtleties of forcing vaginal penetration under law in favor of open celebration of misogyny and rape culture.)
It is also true that while gag orders and legislative exclusions have been popular among conservatives, a more recent innovation is the use of state funds to pay for anti-abortion quackery intended to misinform women; as
reported last year on Florida joining the list, alongside Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. The rest of us ought not be surprised at the actual names of the states on that list.
fallacy and excrement do not a proper argument make.