1) His statement was stupid
2) He should be replaced
3) His presence on the ticket hurts the GOP
Now, having said all that, I have to add that it seems to me he was actually making a valid point -- although being ridiculously clumsy about it.
The question put to him was an attempt to justify legal abortion -- after all, if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant (a Liberal would say) shouldn't we make sure that she could have an abortion??
Akin was trying to say that legalizing abortion on the pretext that millions of women are raped and impregnanted is just bad law-making. You don't use hard cases to design your laws.
Rape is bad, and pregnancies resulting from rape are very unfortunate. But I do not support abortion laws that take rape into consideration. Infanticide is always wrong. Killing the child of a criminal because of the father's crime is always wrong. I think Akin was trying to go in a sensible direction, but I think he expressed himself terribly. Now he will pay the price.
Rather than talk about the 99.9% and the intrinsic value of human life as Bachmann and Santorum had in the GOP primary season, Akin is uttering the words "legitimate rape" and talking nonsense.
The guy will be gone, regardless of the validity of the point, it was delivered so clumbsily no one is going to touch it.. His comments will be a distraction, and no one is going to go out and defend it. The more its talked about the longer it goes on, the longer it goes on the more it hurts.
The point Akins seems to be trying to make is indeed valid but he is so Godawful clumsy and inaccurate about it that the conversation hurts my teeth. The word missing from the discussion is “miscarriage”. It’s an ancient, inbred, physiological defense of the female reproductive system——a pregnancy resulting from exposure to an unfamiliar male will most likely miscarry. That’s why the bride is supposed to select the wedding date to keep her out of phase with her fertil cycle, giving her body time to recognize the sperm of the groom.-———————It’s in the books. Look it up yourself (whoever’s interested)——then go feed the book to Akin.-———————————————————I can’t figure out whether he’s apologizing because he now thinks he was wrong or because he explained the phenomenon like a dumbass.