article_snippet: A brave rape survivor took the podium at a Maryland state Senate meeting this week and told the frightening tale about being stalked by a man she never met.
article_snippet: I need you to know this is so incredibly difficult for me, but I feel like if I don't humanize this, if I don't make it clear how this legislation actually affects your daughters, your mothers, the women of Maryland, then it's all just a bunch of numbers,' Jacqueline Kahn told lawmakers.
article_snippet: I wish I could tell you that's the only time I've been stalked, or that's the only man who has stalked anyone in Maryland.
article_snippet: But there's a huge number of women, who like me have been raped, who like me have been sexually assaulted — and we want the right to be able to do what we would be allowed to do throughout the majority of the rest of the United States,' her said. 