Posted on 08/23/2012 8:42:36 AM PDT by Perseverando
WASHINGTON – So, let me get this straight.
A worthy Republican challenger to Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri made one dumb comment to an interviewer and the entire Republican establishment is pulling the rug out from under him, essentially conceding the race to a very vulnerable Democrat.
Here’s the entirety of Rep. Todd Akin’s comment defending his pro-life position that has caused such a massive furor: “From what I understand from doctors, that’s (conception as a result of rape) really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something, I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.”
Now let’s take this statement apart word for word and see where Akin went wrong.
“From what I understand from doctors, that’s (conception as a result of rape) really rare.” So far, he is absolutely, 100 percent right. It’s exceedingly rare. Some feminist sources claim as many as 5 percent of women raped get pregnant. Though you will find studies placing the percentage at 1 percent to 5 percent, many of them are politically loaded. The fact of the matter is that women can only get pregnant when they are fertile. One-third of women are either too young or too old to get pregnant. A woman is capable of being fertilized only 3 days out of 30 every month. A fourth of all women in the U.S. of childbearing years have been sterilized. Only half of all rapists deposit sperm in the victim’s vagina. Many sexual attackers are impotent or ejaculate prematurely. But, at the end of the day, it’s very rare for a rape victim to become pregnant
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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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