There are hundreds of answers better than his. Here's one:
"You know, rape is a terrible crime. But right now more than one out of every five pregnancies in this country ends in an abortion - that's over a million a year. We need to build on the culture of life I just described to you - one that values women enough to protect them from rape, and that values the most vulnerable among us - the unborn - enough to recognize their right to life."
I reread his reply, and how you can infer his 'principles' based on this one comment:
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare,"
Why is it relevant whether or not it's rare? What if there were only one pregnancy worldwide resulting from rape? What if there were 100 million? Is the answer different? When you start out by saying "that's really rare," it certainly suggests that your answer would be different if it weren't rare, and that's not a principled position. I suspect he does have a principled position, but his answer did not demonstrate that. His answer sounded to me like he was unprepared for perhaps the most predictable question he could possibly have been asked on his pro-life position. And he blew it.
You say COMMON, he said RARE. It can't be both.
I was really torn about answering this comment, because I suspect you realized right after posting it how silly it was.
What I said was "Why should it matter how common it is?" Another way to say that is: "Why should it matter whether it is common or rare?"
No more silly than those who claim that Akin said "LEGITIMATELY RAPED". I was trying to point out how one can take ONE WORD out of context and make a big deal about it.
His answer sounded to me like he was unprepared for perhaps the most predictable question he could possibly have been asked on his pro-life position. And he blew it.
That is possible.
Why is it relevant whether or not it's rare?
Good point. Why then the hubbub ? If it doesn't matter, why is everyone jumping on him about it?
Perhaps the answer is that he was trying to undermine the 'trick' of the HOST in trying to include ALL RAPE into the discussion (and implying that ALL women who are raped get pregnant), when the real issue is SHOULD YOU AND I BE FORCED TO PAY for ABORTIONS. Not just RAPE ones, but ALL.
And THAT is the goal. More money for organized crime/socialists who are now running our nation.
Let me ask you this. Why is our Federal Government even involved in ABORTIONS ?
But right now more than one out of every five pregnancies in this country ends in an abortion - that's over a million a year.
OK. Gameclock is running. You are being interviewed, and you just gave this response. Can you back up your claim ?
OH, sorry. Time is up. Interview is over. Guess we'll just pass this on to TWITTER where it will go VIRAL and everyone can RAGE on about how you made a claim you couldn't back up during your 'interview'.
See how that works ?