Posted on 08/21/2012 7:50:31 PM PDT by Justaham
Rep. Todd Akin's controversial comments about rape and abortion aren't just for Missourians to mull in their Senate race -- they're typical of a mindset that pervades and perverts the entire GOP, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said Tuesday.
"It's deeper than one Republican congressman -- it goes all the way to the top of the Republican ticket," she said. "The truth is there's a war against women, and it's not going to end until we all say at the polls, 'That's not the country we want.'"
Boxer, D-Calif., used her previously scheduled speech to Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte at San Jose City Hall to try to ensure that the furor over Akin's comments tarnish presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. "The mainstream of the Republican Party is now extreme on women's health," she said.
"There is a war against women, and Romney and Ryan -- if they are elected -- would become its top generals," Boxer said, urging the audience to remember the days when desperate women and girls died in botched, back-alley abortions. "We cannot go back."
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...”urging the audience to remember the days when desperate women and girls died in botched, back-alley abortions...”
I don’t know but are there statistics on how many women died from botched abortions? Just curious to see if there are figures that are know to see how many women died prior to 1973 as well as how many known abortions were completed to contrast to after RvW...I’m speculating the 55 million + children being aborted will far out number the number of women who died trying to have their children exterminated.
Thank you, Mr. Akin, for giving the harpies such a great opening for this crap. Sheesh!
And a number of freepers still won't "get it." If we prevail in 2012 it'll be a miracle.
No, there is a war against reason and adult behavior. This is no big surprise, since Boxer has been the mad aunt in the basement since she left the little pond of Marin County CA for the big pond in D.C.
Sort of like a Debbie Wasserman Schultz without the mad woman eyes and train wreck Anthony Wiener look.
Juvenile hyperbole is in the same old bag of tricks she used as a member of the Board of Supervisors... sarcasm, silly allusions and metaphors that played well, in a hippie enclave. Not so much in a national setting. She was dumb as a post then and she has improved with age.
The Democrats are overstretching trying to make this stick to the GOP and are going to look foolish in the end.
No, it is the whining, mewing, crying, handwringing Freepers who don’t get it, in a week this will be old news.
Call her “Senator.” She has worked hard for that title....don’t you know!~
This will be the drum beat from the dims. They will do ANYTHING to distract from real issues and emergencies. Unfortunately, Akin handed it to them on a silver platter and continues to make things worse
A desperate attempt to milk the Akin issue.
“This will be the drum beat from the dims. They will do ANYTHING to distract from real issues and emergencies. Unfortunately, Akin handed it to them on a silver platter and continues to make things worse”
It’s similar to their attempts to use the Aurora shooting to push for gun control.
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