Todd Akin's 'legitimate rape' and the Romney-Ryan war on women - VIDEO
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Akin agrees with Paul Ryan that abortion should be illegal in all cases, even when a woman is raped and becomes pregnant.
Women who have been "legitimately raped", said Akin, have mysterious ways of shutting down the process whereby they conceive.
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors (pregnancy from rape) is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," he said.
Call it voodoo, or call it female intuition, but a women knows when a baby should not be born and she refuses to allow herself to become pregnant, he inferred.
Akin is challenging Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill, who I hope will shortly teach him a thing or two about reproductive biology and political campaigning.
Akin, by the way, sits on the House science committee, which explains why creationism and global-warming-denying are still such signature issues for the GOP.
It should be remembered that Akin and Ryan were the original co-sponsors of the extremist bill H.R. 3 'No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act' which included language which changed the definition of 'rape' to 'forcible rape' until public outcry forced them to change it back.
Like Akin, Ryan is not only anti-choice, he has been against abortion in all cases. Mitt Romney has said he would get rid of Planned Parenthood. So the war on women is back in the headlines and it's about time.
Akin himself has no question about what should happen if a women becomes pregnant through rape or incest and he said so: 'I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.'
There you go ladies. If these are sentiments you can support then team Romney/Ryan are your men.
51 comments
BrianO | Aug 20, 2012, 10:32 PM EDT
To all the abort at anytimers you were once just a fertilized egg, fetus, developing human, infant, infant born, toddler, child, adolescent, adult, why you are so fervent to deny others the same truly mystifies me.
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SingleDonald | Aug 20, 2012, 10:16 PM EDT
I will post again, concerning the disparity that only women can get pregnant. Suppose I go out with a manager at work, professor, doctor, physician's assistant, or psychologist. While we are away from the professional setting, she uses her charms to seduce me, and gets pregnant. Nine months later, she has the baby, and asks me about child support. I would readily agree, as I was seduced, not "raped", by her having someone point a gun at me, to achieve my compliance. If another guy, in the same scenario, refusd to pay child support, the big question would be: Should this guy be compelled to pay? My answer is YES!
That should convince feminists that I feel men should contribute their fair share, where their child is involved. Regardless of the taboos created by the "political correct" crowd, who demonize dating between those people I described, I would not blame the woman, and would readily contribute my fair share!
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SingleDonald | Aug 20, 2012, 10:02 PM EDT
Tough subject, but I will weigh in! I do believe most abortions are wrong, and always have. I could possibly see the legitimacy of terminating a pregnancy where the child has Downs Syndrone, or other incurable illness. The procedure should be performed early on, not when the baby is 5/6 months old. That is plain murder; I read how some of these late term abortions are carried out! Concerning rape, Todd Aiken meant forcible rape, when he called it "legitimate rape". Of course, there is nothing "legitimate" about rape, and all us guys should know that. However, some feminists try to equate things such as seduction, sexual harassment, etc. as "rape". That is sheer nonesense; it's time to get real! Using physical force is the only "legitimate", meaning realistic definition of rape. Concerning the unwanted child of a rape, it is indeed a tough call. The poor mother, if she has the baby, will be reminded of the rapist, every time she looks at her son or daughter. On the other hand, why abort a perfectly healthy baby? Punish the rapist, not the child sounds good to me! Maybe an adoption agency could take the unwanted baby, and give him/her a good home. I wish Todd Aiken the best in his congressional race against Claire McCaskill! BTW, you can look this up: Neither Susan B. Anthony nor Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) were in favor of abortion!
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alisaann | Aug 20, 2012, 08:41 PM EDT
is this really the type of people you WANT running the country?.....GOD, I HOPE NOT....the GOP has NO RESPECT FOR WOMEN...and they want to take away programs to HELP the people...and TAKE AWAY RIGHTS that people should have.
WAKE UP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE PEOPLE.
ALISA
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EphraimKibbey | Aug 20, 2012, 08:26 PM EDT
Where does the GOP FIND these blithering idiots? This guy got 36% of the vote in an 8 person primary in Missouri. Maybe a run off election would have been in order. You think? The important thing to get out of this incident, according to Sandra Fluke today on MSNBC, was that this is not one lone lunatic but the voting RECORD of the GOP since they took control of the US House (over 30 anti abortion bills while America goes jobless) and numerous state governments. She said that she would remember them at the poles in November and hoped that every woman and every man that ever loved a woman would do the same.
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eiriamach | Aug 20, 2012, 07:03 PM EDT
Turning watches back 200 years would just narrowly save women's bodies from government takeover, seanomelb, if we could stop the clock there. The first anti-abortion laws appeared in the USA in the 1820s, when the then-all-male, school-trained, licensed, organized MD's needed to run the female midwives out of their new practice of obstetrics. They could not outlaw the midwives' help in at-home births, but they could and did criminalize the abortions they performed to save the lives or health of pregnant women.
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seanomelb | Aug 20, 2012, 06:39 PM EDT
A person at conception!! how extremist some people are. Women of America take heed if Romney wins the teabaggers will own you BODY and soul.If Romney wins you can turn back your watches 200 years.
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jamthecat | Aug 20, 2012, 06:29 PM EDT
So let me see if I've got this right -- The government can't do anything right and should be made smaller, but he government is better equipped to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body, even after she's been raped. And people take fools like Ryan and Aiken seriously. Oh, man...this country is collapsing like Rome did, thanks to the ignorant idiots we keep putting in office...90% of which are Republicans.
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hollabackgurl | Aug 20, 2012, 04:03 PM EDT
'...tough situation all around...' writes BrianO. But it's actually a tough situation for the woman who has been raped. It seems cruel to me that she should be forced to carry the child of a rapist to term. It doesn't seem cruel to Todd Aiken or his co-sponsor Paul Ryan. I imagine to them women should be glad they don't have to marry their rapists as the Old Testament commands.
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Tom Mo | Aug 20, 2012, 03:34 PM EDT
Looks like Todd Akin had a Joe Biden and should pull out......... of the race, that is.
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BrianO | Aug 20, 2012, 03:00 PM EDT
Touchy subject, My only comment not being a woman, or a rapist, is that if conception occurs their is an innocent life that has no voice or chance to defend itself, tough situation all around.
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BulldogMania | Aug 20, 2012, 02:17 PM EDT
There is no evidence to support his statement. It was stupid and offensive. Politically it was a VERY stupid thing to say. It sounds like something Biden would say...the clown of clowns in Washington these days. He says stupid stuff like this all the time, but enjoys the shield placed around his mouth by the liberal media.
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Stiofain | Aug 20, 2012, 01:36 PM EDT
This whats when America does away with sex education.
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eiriamach | Aug 20, 2012, 01:14 PM EDT
Pregnancy resulting from rape and incest is far from "rare." According to a 1996 national 3-year study, the pregnancy rate was 5.0% per rape of females aged 12 to 45, about 32,101 each year (as Pilib04 mentioned). Most pregnancies occur in children, pre-teens and adolescents who are not on birth control and who often do not realize they are pregnant until the third trimester (32.4%). Close to half of them receive no medical care during pregnancy. The study concludes, "Rape-related pregnancy occurs with significant frequency. It is a cause of many unwanted pregnancies and is closely linked with family and domestic violence. As we address the epidemic of unintended pregnancies in the US, greater attention and effort should be aimed at preventing and identifying unwanted pregnancies that result from sexual victimization." Those who think like Mickey74007, that women should bear the costs of abortion, should try telling that to a pregnant 12-year-old rape victim. These stats are from "Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women," Holmes, Resnick, Kilpatrick, Best; abstract is on line.) Ironically, Aiken would commit child abuse if he tried to disallow abortion for rape victims.
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