Posted on 08/23/2012 8:42:36 AM PDT by Perseverando
One has to distinguish between statutory rape and other sorts of rape.
Fine. Akin is an idiot and wrong and has admitted he was wrong. Women get pregnant from violent rape all the time. Most victims of violent rape are younger women. There is no data that supports the ‘shut the whole thing down ‘ conjecture, yet zealots persist in their self righteous and self serving ignorance.
Perhaps “violent rape” would have been a better choice of words. But then again, people would have lit into him on that too. The same people who want to cover for statutory rapists by having young girls abort their babies would start saying he doesn’t recognize the violence of ALL rape.
Trying to be cool with an enemy media is like trying to appease terrorists. It’s a pointless endeavor.
What disappoints me, though, is that Tea Party and GOP-e alike are ready to devour this guy because of what is at worst a poor choice of words. That’s politics, and it’s why I hate politics. Why I’m losing any kind of respect for anybody who engages in that.
I understand why everybody is so frantic. We’re just sure that the country is so stupid that it can’t tell the difference between a guy using “legitimate” instead of “violent” and somebody who wants to destroy women.
It’s like we’re afraid the whole world has PMS and can’t be trusted to think like rational human beings. The sad part is that every time we give in and dumb down the discussion and thought allowed, we kill whatever brain cells the society had.
It’s just sad. A guy can live a consistently pro-life life and because he says “legitimate” instead of “violent” everything is down the tubes. Sort of like a baby that appears at an inconvenient time - just throw him down the chute. Stick a scissors in his skull; he’s done.
It’s sad. I can’t be anything but sad over this whole sorry mess.
Statistically a violent rape is no less likely to result in pregnancy than a single sexual encounter.
Statistically a child conceived of rape is no more likely to miscarry.
Statistically children born of rape happen all the time.
But you don’t make laws based on single instances.
Justice shoud apply every time. The question should be if it is ever just to kill an innocent rather than quibble over how many thousands of children are born of rape. Idiotic talk about supposed secretion of secretions is not the way to go, and yet the ‘shut the whole thing down’ gang goes on in self righteous and self serving ignorance.
Justice should apply each time, but not in this world.
To me that is a no brainer question. I want a GOP senator from Missouri not McCaskell.
Angle let Reid remain in the senate and look how we have propsered given that fact.
We also lost a seat in Delaware we had in our hip pocket in 2010.
Maybe the polls are wrong, but I doubt it. And even if it is less than 10% I have a sawbuck that says it is at leat 7%.
Akin is toast and he is going to drag the GOP down with him.
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