I think she is smiling.
Posted on 08/21/2012 2:53:18 PM PDT by NYer
Ping!
So far, all I can tell is Akin will not back down from principle when politics threaten them.
What percentage of the voters would vote for a candidate who used her talking points?
Oh boy.. dinner is ready.. I might be back later..
This didn’t exactly go in the direction I thought it would. The LifeNews should have tipped me off.
The article was quite informative.
I had no idea that only 15 to 25% of women who become pregnant as a result of a rape, decide to terminate the pregnancy. Honestly, I would have guessed the other way around. I’m glad I was wrong.
Thanks for bringing the article to our attention.
Good article. I think she’s right. Instead of focusing on whether rape accounts will go up because of the availability of abortion for rape. Focus on the rights of the unborn.
After Santorum made the remarks she pointed out above, he shifted his response to basically mirror those exact talking points.
He proceeded to clean up in Missouri, in both their caucuses and primary.
One of my coworkers told me today that she is here because her mother was raped. She is a lovely, lovely person.
Ethel Waters was conceived when her mother was raped by a mixed-race (white?) man when she was thirteen years old.
Ethel Waters was not aborted because that option was not available.
(These are people who are being aborted, even if they are conceived in rape.)
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"First of all -- never say 'legitimate rape,'" Kiessling said. "Ron Paul used the same terminology last January and he got lambasted for it too. This kind of remark only serves to perpetuate the suspicion of rape victims' accounts. It's estimated that only 1% of rape victims ever see their rapist convicted as charged. Rape is rape. 'Legitimate rape' almost sounds as if it was somehow justifiable. If you are 100% pro-life with no rape exceptions, there is no need to question the veracity of a rape victims' account, because you are against all abortions. It would not matter if a woman was not or not raped," she continued.
What principles? He’s a lying sack of crap career politician looking out for himself. You sound like the right-wing version of Peggy, the Obama voter who thought she was going to have her mortgage and car paid for after he was elected.
Thank you for sharing this. I was thinking about this today (before I read about her) and wondered why we do not do more to support women who have become pregnant via rape to have their babies and to make them feel that they are doing something heroic and possibly healing for themselves as well as their child. Much of how a person feels about something has to do with how those around them feel about it and what they convey to them. God bless every woman who goes thru this. And I hate that the left uses it as a political issue.
You are not alone in this thinking which has been fostered by feminists and their democrat supporters. For that reason, I posted this thread. You can learn more from Kiessling's web site.
REBECCA KIESSLING - Official Web Site
I started having sex underage. Not by much, but underage...with someone who was not.
I have been around younger girls in my life, however, who have had multiple abortions by age 16, along with proudly school-aged and pregnant. It’s not amazing. It’s reprehensible.
Whining and complaining about child porn or NAMBLA or moral turpitude and degradation does no more good than typing here. It’s just words, and the present Administration is fine with having us pay for it.....Except for the muzz, who will kill women that don’t want children, along with raping Western girls for sh!ts and giggles.
But is the answer to forbid abortion, or discourage it.
This is ridiculous! The woman knows if she is pregnant, or not before she's raped, otherwise all that's in place is an embryo, or not far from it. The decision belongs to the woman alone. If she is raped everyone else, includng the law, has no business sticking their nose in this whatsoever.
She makes a compelling case. I will admit to oscillating on this issue. I genuinely don’t know.
I understand that there is no logic in allowing a baby to be terminated because he was conceived in rape. It is not his fault. I also have a real personal problem condemning a woman to a life-changing pregnancy and 18-years of child-rearing that she truly had absolutely no option to refuse. It also is not her fault.
Unfortunately, life presents situations with absolutely no good answer. This is one of them. It is possible that “choice” is the best of two awful options.
Most abortions do not fall into this category, so we can reduce them by 99% by banning them in all other cases, so this need not be the focus of the debate anyway.
SnakeDoc
I think she is smiling.
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