Apparently what Akin said is true - pregancy is rare via rape, according to pro-abortionists. It just surprises me that pro-lifers still don’t know how to state their belief that abortion is wrong no matter what and that comes directly from God: Thou shalt not kill. Period end of statement.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t what he said. If that was what he meant to say, then he should have said it.
Because, ever since Roe v. Wade, and the near abolition of capital punishment, life has become cheap.
I’m with you. Kill the rapist. Confiscate his property and give it to the victim. If there is a pregnancy, give the baby a chance to live. Put it up for adoption if the mother doesn’t want it.
Yeah it sucks, but killing babies is the worst thing a human being can do.
That’s fine what you said.
Why didn’t Akin say that?
Instead he said “legitimate rape”, which makes it sound OK, as in legit, legitimate; or, alternatively like some women “cry rape” when they weren’t in fact raped at all. By which, I suppose, he meant “statutory” rape, but who knows? Maybe he meant false accusations/claims of rape.
Then he went into all that boogy woogie bullsxxxx about how you don’t usually, generally, get pregnant if you are (I guess this is what he meant) violently sexually assaulted, because your body can just “shut that down”.
Way to go, Congressman.
DROP OUT NOW!
Oh yeah, the only murder likely here is the MURDER of the REPUBLICAN chances in November.
Please urge candidate Akin not to turn his rape of the language into the murder of our chances this fall.
Thank you.
FIND THE NUMBERS AND CALL.
TOMORROW IS THIS DOPE’S LAST DAY TO DROP OUT CLEANLY.
HE NEEDS TO FIND THE DOOR AND DEPART!
We should definitely have that discussion.
The problem is we cannot get to that discussion because we have to wade through an idiotic and utterly pointless remark that derailed the whole issue and set it back probably a decade.
Bottome line: Stupid people do not help the pro-Life cause. No matter how sincere they are, they HURT not help the cause.
This whole episode is rediculas, can we move on already?
I am the product of a rape, had abortion been legal when i was in my mother womb, I would not have made it to full term.
My mother already had 7 children, and we literally had dirt floors. If anyone should be insulted it should be me, and I am not. So can we please us move on and quit helping the Democrats and Rinos do their work.
We all misspeak at some time that is bad for us, let us not destroy our chance at gaining a super majority in the Senate by helping Claire McCaskill stay in Washington as Mo Senator.
Todd Akin is the vest man for the job, and he already apologized, so enough already.
Sorry Sagar, but since Reagan, the exceptions have always been rape, incest and the life of the mother. As far as I’m concerned the exceptions are as inviolate as the rest of the pro-life plank.
This is the really real world. It’s not all happy endings and sunshine when a rape victim carries a baby to term. A fragile psyche can’t always withstand another 9 months of assault. People break. Also, please don’t hand me a line that watching the product of violence grow inside of her isn’t assault. Maybe some women will be able to compartmentalize the rape and separate it from the pregnancy, but everyone with a room temperature IQ knows that not every woman will be able to do so.
A marriage can’t always survive a husband watching another man’s baby grow in his wife’s womb, even when it was forced upon her. In the same fashion, perhaps some men can, but we know for certain that not all men are capable.
A thirteen year old’s life is no less at risk being impregnated so soon after becoming fertile because she didn’t consent. It’s just a fact of life that young girls become fertile before their bodies are fully developed. Immature skeletons with narrow pelvises, inabilities to create to enough red blood cells to handle the increased blood volume, inability of the immature venous system to handle increased flow creates PIH, etc etc.
No, as I told another poster. We’ll be keeping those exceptions to the pro-life platform for some time to come. Bear in mind that you really don’t want those who are pro-life in the Reagan sense to be forced to choose between two extremes. You’ll lose.
I would assume that Congressman Akin has the ability to say what he believes. Since his statement was far different from yours I believe he should be evaluated on what he said, not what we wish he had said.
He veered away from making a principled argument against abortion and tried to make some distinction between legitimate and I suppose illegitimate rape. He also tried to make the unprincipled argument that the frequency of conception in rape cases had something to do with the morality of abortion. Is abortion acceptable if there is 99 percent rate of conception but not acceptable if there is only 1 percent rate?
I believe the good Congressman dug a hole for himself that he can’t, and probably shouldn’t get out of. The question remaining is how many will go down with him.
“The grieving victim of the rape has no right to turn her grief on an innocent child who has absolutely no fault.”
True. But, do the men have the right to force a woman to go through gestation, and then suffer delivery agony/risks if the child is the product of rape? I am here assuming the rape victim does not want to carry and deliver the child.
Please consider the contradiction between your “innocent child” which should be “innocent fetus”, and the Christian concept of “Original Sin”.
Original Sin would not allow the fetus to be free of sin, or are you postulating that Original Sin is contracted during passage down the birth canal?
It is very hard to intellectualize a deeply held moral belief. If people would accept the simple answer, 'because it is wrong' this kind of thing would not happen.
It's like complaining about literally 0.1% to justify the remaining 99.9% of baby murders.
Akin could have framed it better, but he was probably stressed, however you are right -- a woman who has been violated this way and then aborts gets a double crime perpetrated on HER. She will feel guilty and almost feel a partner in the crime perpetrated on her (the rape).
Well said.
Cold, hard, ugly reality is that some cultures will use rape as a weapon of genocide, and killing the fetus denies them the effective use of that weapon.
America will never have rape panels where we have a bunch of old people and men putting the raped woman and young girls on trial, to get some sort of stamp of approval. The victims get put on trial and have to prove they aren’t liars. It’s total lunacy and a waste of time. It would turn into a political nightmare. It’s just that simple.
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