Since this has turned into multiple threads, let me post a comment I made earlier:
Akin spoke incautiously, and then he got absolutely ripped for it by practically everybody. But I gather that he is a good, sound conservative. And even though his wording gave the liberal press an opportunity to jump in and bash him, he was basically right in principle. Rape should not be an excuse for abortion, especially taxpayer funded abortion.
We should not be encouraging the victims of rape to abort their babies. Rape is a terrible experience, but so is abortion. Being persuaded to abort her child, even though unwanted, will only make the mother feel even worse. More importantly, it’s not the baby’s fault that he is the product of a rape. If his mother doesn’t want to keep her child, and that is certainly understandable, then it can be adopted out to someone else.
Obama has said things a thousand times worse than this, and has repeatedly gotten a free pass from the press. But if a conservative pro-lifer says it, the leftist media blast it all over the place. And then all the so-called conservatives hop on board the left-wing propaganda train, for fear of damage. What could be more damaging than to jump on board a Communist propaganda train because you’re afraid of what it might do? How about saying, instead, that these presstitutes are baby killers, and that although Akin may have used some unfortunate wording, he was ultimately right. Abortion is evil, even in the case of rape.
” Rape should not be an excuse for abortion”
The secretaries at my office got on me about this: “What if your beautiful Amy was raped, and became pregnant?”
I told them that the baby was a complete innocent, and that I would advise Amy to seek help, and, most likely, put the baby up for adoption. The baby, though conceived through rape, was completely innocent. I then shocked them by telling them that, were the rapist arrested. I would take every chance I could get to put a bullet through his brain. And if I was unable to do that, I’d pay prison gangs to eliminate him. Boy! Were they shocked!
>> Rape should not be an excuse for abortion, especially taxpayer funded abortion.
Yet Akin’s remarks concern abortion in the case where rape did not occur.
The collective analysis of his initial remarks is pathetic.
That is likely the greatest understatement ever to leave your keyboard.
Akin blurted out an inarticulate, inaccurate statement open to multiple interpretations on a hot button topic to half the electorate that was not only a non-issue in the campaign, but also off-limits. It was not even a principled statement, since it was stated with neither forethought nor consideration. His statement was self-indulgent and careless. It certainly did not evince an honorable support of the pro-life cause.
The man is a delusional idiot. He is a self-indulgent, proud, stubborn moron who is going to suffer a nationalized humiliating defeat. Not because he is pro-life but because he is dumber than a box of rocks.
He cannot speak three words without tripping over his tongue. He is boorish and inarticulate and cannot see the fatal damage he has done to his own campaign, and is willing to hurt his party and the country and his own supposedly cherished pro-life ideals in a futile attempt to revive his doomed senatorial ambitions. He is selfish and stupid.
I am furious and sick about what this vile man as brought upon himself and his party. He has no honor. The only solace is that he will be soundly defeated and humiliated. But that gives me very little comfort because of the damage he as done to the country.