If you listen to his whole statement, you will hear a couple of things:
1) The "legitimate" rape comment was a preface to his main point . I believe he is referring to what I describe in my #71 post above, which he said he had heard from a few doctors.
2) His main point is that the baby should not have to suffer and die for the sin of another. That, by the way, is a plank in the Republican party platform and has been for years. Now, you may believe that the murder of an innocent child is justified in the case of rape but there are a lot of people who are far from stupid who believe such murder is extremely offensive.
Yea Pete nice try. I never in any way said,hinted at or in any way suggested that abortion was okay so no need to try and toss that paint brush around. Want to try again?
No, not in the context of this discussion it is not. This will be the first time ever that rape is not exempted in the Republican party platform. A huge mistake in my opinion.
I'll even predict right now that in very short order, more people will recognize the mistake. The Democrats have already latched on to it and dubbed it the Akin Plank. There is a ton of political mileage to be gained from this, and you'd better bet that the democrats will milk it for every vote that it's worth.