[hecht]

Until this broke, no sane person had ever heard of this belief. If Akin had quickly just gone away we’d have looked upon him as simply weird. Unfortunately - and Rush mentioned it on Tuesday - we have now learnt that this is dogma for a hopefully small subset.
There are many middle of the road swing voters who Lean Pro life who will now now of this dogma and will be terrified that it is prevalent and vote Dem. The DNC nows this and is very good at scaring right leaning people especially woman who get terrified from these folks.
A woman’s greates fear is rape only followed by pregnancy from that. I can understand the raoe exception . Many lifers do, but to these fanatics , a pregnant rape victim is a lying whore.
Also , they say we should forgive Akin for his apology, but they then go on to say that he spoke the truth. You can’t have it both ways.

[MplsSteve]

“Also , they say we should forgive Akin for his apology, but they then go on to say that he spoke the truth.”

Exactly. I noticed the same thing.

[jboot]

Before last week I had only heard of the magic rape spermicide once, and that many years ago when I worked on a survey crew. The guy in question was a deadbeat dad fighting a paternity suit. He claimed that because his only sexual contact with the woman had been nonconsensual no conception could have taken place. He had somehow gotten ahold of an "expert" to testify to this. He was a real piece of work, not a pro-lifer but a lowlife. I gathered later that he lost his case.

As a pro-lifer myself, I do not believe in a rape/incest exception on principle. That said, A. I don't believe in magic uterus genies and B. I accept that in this broken world the perfect is the enemy of the good. Pro-life without exception is still a hard sell to the general public. A law that bans most abortions that can pass is better than a law that bans all abortions that cannot pass.