AOC Suggests She Was Raped: ‘I Speak About this as a Survivor’

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “Six weeks pregnant — and it's shameful that this education even needs to happen because this conversation shouldn't even be held in a legislative body — six weeks pregnant is two weeks — two weeks late for one’s period. When you are raped, you don’t always know what happened to you. You are — and I speak about this as a survivor. You are in so much shock, and by the way, people who commit abuse and victims and survivors of sexual assault are overwhelmingly assaulted by someone they know. And this myth that it’s some person lurking on a street or in a parking lot waiting to sexually assault you, that myth only benefits the abusers in power that want you to think that that’s how it happens. It’s your friend, it’s a boyfriend, it’s a boss, it’s a legislator. You are in so much shock at what happened to you. Sometimes it takes years to realize what actually went on."