Akin is quite bright and wasn’t takling about “crisis pregnancies.”
His comment was factual, and that is what is really bothering the bed wetters.
“Akin...and wasn’t takling about “crisis pregnancies.”
I don’t want to be overly contentious here, but he’s talking about pregnancies that might result from a violent sexual assault. Even by his own reasoning those can occur.
Now, if that is not a crisis pregnancy, what is?
I’ll give my full disclosure here: if I knew a woman who had gotten pregnant as the result of, let’s not mince words at all, violent stranger rape, I would advise that she should carry the pregnancy to term and give the child up for adoption.
I see abortion as an assault on your body, and I don’t see that following one assault with another is a good thing.
That being said, as a political matter I support keeping the rape and (this is bogus, but whatever) incest exceptions. I think we generally agree on “life of the mother”, but if we don’t I support that exception also.
And, quite frankly, if some woman wants to go a lie and say she was raped and that’s why she needs an abortion, I just can’t get too excited about that.
I’m afraid we are always going to have abortions, we’ve always had them. Often enough people do bad things, no matter the law, no matter the custom, no matter the consequence.
What I find disturbing about the modern abortion ethos is that it is considered “ok” or better or more normal or more healthy than pregnancy.
I’ll grant that Mr. Akin may be a well intentioned person, but so far he’s not helping.
Maybe he’ll do better as time goes along. I hope so.