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50% of ALL women will be physically or sexually abused during their lifetimes. (source: U.S. Department of Justice)
1 in 4 COLLEGE women will be sexually assaulted during their tenure as a student. (source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics)
EVERY 100 SECONDS a woman is RAPED (source: F.B.I.)
At what point do we say ENOUGH!
Rape costs America between 110 and 127 BILLION dollars per year. (In comparison robbery costs 4 billion.)
And these are merely the economic costs. Women experiencing rape are 26 times more likely to have a drug problem and 13 times more likely to have an alcohol problem. 31% of rape victims will experience post traumatic stress syndrome. Rape victims are 13 times more likely to contemplate suicide than non-victims and 1 in 8 will actually attempt suicide. Victims are forced to live in fear, depression, anxiety, guilt ridden lives - - for what?? Because some man didn't care enough about another human being?
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