DallasSun knows what shes talking about...
Posted on 08/22/2012 3:20:19 PM PDT by shhrubbery!
Akin was talking out of his hat about a field he has no expertise in and he was wrong.
Agree. It not only politically stupid for Michelle to do this, but class-less.
My hope is that the voters of Missouri will be as enraged over this as I am. If they are, they will go out in droves to vote for Akin, partly to spite the smug pundits -- but mainly to defeat both McCaskill and Obama this fall.
I am in San Antonio. That is my fault, not yours, that you think I am in Dallas. I am not being emotional or irrational. Akins is ignorant. And does not have the republican party’s best interest at heart. How many leading Republicans have told him to drop out of the race now? He refuses to even acknowledge their counsel. He is tone deaf. He has nothing but his ego in mind. And we are running out of time to get a conservative in the race with time to campaign. His history speaks for itself. There is nothing irrational or emotional about this.
> His point was that abortion is wrong, even if the woman was raped.
Pregnancy is a result of fertilization. Why should it matter how the fertilization occurred in a discussion that is about willfully killing the baby?
Michelle is right.
I work with the Republican party in Texas. I did not say that lightly.
Is the best treatment for a rape the murder of a baby?
He was wrong to be anti-abortion? Is he wrong to be pro life, pro 2nd Amendment, pro Constitution, pro America, pro God?
You seem like a pretty emotional broad, maybe you can tell me: What is it about women that they feel such an irresistible need to jab scissors into a defenseless human's head and kill him or her?
If not, why not?
Because it's too late. The child has achieved human status. We can debate when this human status is achieved. There are those who oppose condoms because it interferes with conception. There are those who oppose female birth control (or the morning after pill) because it interferes with fertilized cell implantation. Where do you draw the line as to when the fetus is developed enough that it is part of the human family? I think it's around 4 1/2 months, myself. Five years after birth is well past that.
You may be a woman but since you don’t parrot the PC line, you have no right to speak as a woman. Just as Clarence Thomas has no right to speak for blacks, even though he is one. You must be the RIGHT KIND of woman ... or black ... or other “victim.”
Is THIS what y'all'r discussin' ?
If it is ... we don't have a chance anyway because of all those weaklings.
I say, drop the subject and move on.
Aiken ain't droppin' out, Palin will say what Palin says and we will all vote to re-claim America.
Please don’t try to clutter this discussion with facts and real studies.
We are all to busy ranting and raving......
Only rats know that every husband can be replaced with a monthly check and multitudes of government programs. Rats have obviously supported families for generations. Just look at all the single moms and our prisons filled with their once babies, now men who couldn't identify their fathers in a police lineup.
Stop feeling. Start thinking.
Actually, the point about which rapes are *legitimate* is quite an important point. If you change the law and make abortion illegal except for rape and incest (or life of the mother), suddenly you have to decide if a rape really occurred (a legitimate rape). Everyone is crying about that point and thinking it means some rapes are not really rape or something (the left is leading here trying to make him seem like he doesn’t think rape is rape and clearly this is NOT what he meant). But, if the law stipulates this is when you may have an abortion but at no other time, they will have to have a way to decide if a rape actually occurred. Talk about a nightmare.
A perfectly reasonable argument. Wish the dumbass would’ve made it.
He didn’t, and he’s justifiably suffering the consequences of his stupid extraneous commentary about “legitimate rape” not resulting in pregnancy.
SnakeDoc
DallasSun knows what shes talking about...
Start with the term “forcible” rape. As opposed to? And the fact that 32,000 women per year get pregnant as a result of rape.
I think it’s “low body fat” in general (would also include anorexics and probably famine victims).
LLS
Not true.
But as I pointed out, for a researcher or medical professional to come forward and back Akin's statement would be almost certain career-suicide. Look at what happened to researchers Mark Regnerus and Jay Belsky, whom I cited in my post.
Akin was talking out of his hat about a field he has no expertise in and he was wrong.
What was unwise was try to give an earnest answer to a hostile questioner.
But lots of times politicians are asked questions about topics where they have no scientific expertise. Solar energy, for example.
Your comment implies that Akin couldn't comment on Solyndra, because he doesn't have a degree in solar energy engineering (lthough he does in fact have a degree in engineering).
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