Ryan grilled on abortion and 'forcible rape'

CBS News ^ | August 22, 2012 | Rebecca Kaplan

[Berlin_Freeper]

CBS News) ROANOKE, Va. - In his first solo public statement on the issue, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan called controversial comments made by Missouri Senate hopeful Todd Akin "outrageous" in an interview with KDKA Pittsburgh. The staunchly anti-abortion House member declined to explain the phrase "forcible rape," which appeared in a bill he co-sponsored with Akin.

[jonrick46]

I know it is easy to put the focus on the victim of rape. Any woman subjected to such inhuman savagery is one who needs all the support she can get. However, when a human being is conceived from such an act, there are two lives that need society’s support: the mother and her child. To stigmatize the child because of its odious origin is like hanging a woman for being a witch. It is a mass hysteria which creates a victim in the unborn child. It is time this kind of superstition stops.

[Spok]

Here we go again-the media and the Democrats framing the discussion.

[randita]

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[Carl Vehse]

In the future when he is asked by a reporter about abortion in the case of rape, Ryan should say that a child conceived from such a rape no more deserves to be killed than the reporter’s mother needs to be killed for giving birth to such a Zero-media buttboy.

[MrB]

“Before I answer that question, please complete the following sentence:
‘It’s OK to kill a baby in the womb when ______’”.

This is Ray Comfort’s silver bullet in the film “180”.

[lastchance]

Here is the answer he could give, “Forcible rape is the term used by the FBI in its Uniform Crime Report regarding 4 violent crimes. We had thought to distinguish between rape as it is properly understood and statutory rape involving underage females who consented to sex. Though such sex is defined as statutory rape because there is an issue of consent we wanted to exclude this class of sexual crime from the law” Unfortunately this distinction lead people to believe we were also excluding forms of non consensual sex where force was not used, this was never our intent and the subsequent bill dropped that distinction.”