It occurs to be instead of that history lesson with Grucci I could have just said MACACA. That was one lousy word, a foreign slang term no less. Akin had blessed us with an entire offending sentence.
The sentence isn’t the real issue. The issue is that he really doesn’t understand human biology on a critically political issue.
You don’t need to bring up Grucci or even Allen’s Macaca; in 2002, Tim Hutchinson lost his U.S. Senate seat to Democrat Mark Pryor in not insignificant part due to Hutchison’s assertion that women rarely get pregnant when they get raped due to stress or something (pretty much what Akin said).
I am a 100% pro-lifer, and I can explain my position in a way that a child could understand, without having to resort to quasi-scientific theories of the likelihood of conception during a rape:
An unborn child is an innocent human being, and has the same right to life of any innocent human being, irrespective of how he was conceived. I support the death penalty for rapists (and hope that SCOTUS overrules its ahistorical jurisprudence limiting the use of capital punishment to murder), but I do not support the death penalty for the innocent child.
Our Constitution sets limits on the use of “Corruption of Blood,” since the Framers found it illegitimate to punish a child for the sins of his father. When the state permits the child who is a product of rape to be killed, the state is permitting the child to be killed as punishment for his father’s crime. An unborn child is no less human just because his father was a rapist.