[Strategerist]

How dense can someone possibly be?

He’s NOT in trouble because he opposes legal abortion in cases of rape, or because he made an argument that the rapist should be punished.

Now, given that about only 20% of the public wants to ban abortion in cases of rape or incest, had he made that position the centerpiece of his campaign, he likely would have lost the campaign, but it wouldn’t instantly be over like it is now.

He’s in TROUBLE because he believes that if a woman is raped her body will somehow keep her from getting pregnant. THAT’s the statement that matters.

Nobody that would be horrified by that comment is going to suddenly change their mind when the statement is placed in context. The context doesn’t affect the meaning of what he said.

[philman_36]

How dense can someone possibly be?
As dense as their particular molecular structure allows them to be. Some are more dense than others. Bones, excess water weight, fatty tissue, muscle mass...shall I go on?

THAT’s the statement that matters.

It seems that "THAT’s the statement that matters" to you.
It seems that others find other statements to be what matters, like what does he mean by "legitimate" rape.

You seem rather "squishy" to me.

[Gene Eric]

>> He’s in TROUBLE because

He’s in trouble because reactionary prejudice of the terminology will frame “legitimate rape” as a degree of rape more vicious than that which is erroneously inferred in contrast as “acceptable rape”. Everything else is irrelevant.

Now I ask his antagonists, what is illegitimate rape?