Well my stance is basically that if you're murdered, you're dead. If you're raped/molested/whatever you're essentailly living in hell. It shatters everything about who you are, and the effects can possibly last your entire life if you don't get proper help for it. It effects every part of your life, while murder... kills you.
Now, mind you, murder totally sucks and is also a problem in the world, I just don't think it's as bad. And a lot of women agree with me. I saw a show once where a woman was being interviewed because she was about to be raped, and decided that if he was going to rape her he'd have to kill her first because she'd rather be dead than let that be done to her. So she kicked his ass.
Of course, sexual assault being worse than murder is a very subjective thing and it's hard to find any support on the topic, but I'm confident you'll find that the majority of people (or at least women, I don't know about the general male standpoint on the issue) is that they'd rather die than let that happen to them. I would.
