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To: MEGoody

That is what he wants. There isn’t really much you can do about the media accurately stating your own position.

At least, that would have given us an argument over truth and fact. What he did was make pro-life people look like idiots. Also, suggesting once again that pro-lifers really want to “punish” women for having sex. That is what his statement did — saying that if the woman didn’t choose to have sex, her body would keep her from getting pregnant.

Worse, he suggested that statutory rape was a case where the girl wants to have sex, as if that makes it OK to punish her with a pregnancy.

Pro-lifers win the moral argument when we stick to the truth — abortion kills human beings. We lose when we make it about what the woman did, and what she deserves because of it.


53 posted on 08/20/2012 9:45:22 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT; MEGoody

So... what you are saying (see how this works?) is that due to what YOU THINK he meant, that Akin committed thought crimes.


67 posted on 08/20/2012 10:10:12 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (RED NECK KUNG FU by Corn Fuschas)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
saying that if the woman didn’t choose to have sex, her body would keep her from getting pregnant.

Akin did NOT say it would never happen. But of course you know that.

Doctors do say the body tends to keep conception from occurring in times of great stress. Surely you've heard of women who are all stressed about trying to have a baby being told "relax and it will happen" by their doctors? Are you saying all those doctors are just being lazy or dismissive of women?

that makes it OK to punish her with a pregnancy

You think the left is going to change the "punish her with a baby' mantra no matter how the truth is presented? Of course they won't.

We lose when we make it about what the woman did, and what she deserves because of it.

Akin said nothing about what a woman "deserves" because of any particular behavior. The left is wanting you to read that into it because they hate his conservative values. And it seems you've fallen for it.

78 posted on 08/20/2012 10:43:56 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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