And we both know that the MSM would have jumped all over that as well, whining about how Akin wants to force women who have been raped to be forced to carry a child resulting from that rape.
Which is why you word it. Rape is extremely horrible and unexcuseable, but I feel that the killing of an innocent child is equally, if not more, unexcuseable and should be treated as so.
Let the chips lie where they may. He stated his principles and has not gone against anyone of them.
That is what he wants. There isn’t really much you can do about the media accurately stating your own position.
At least, that would have given us an argument over truth and fact. What he did was make pro-life people look like idiots. Also, suggesting once again that pro-lifers really want to “punish” women for having sex. That is what his statement did — saying that if the woman didn’t choose to have sex, her body would keep her from getting pregnant.
Worse, he suggested that statutory rape was a case where the girl wants to have sex, as if that makes it OK to punish her with a pregnancy.
Pro-lifers win the moral argument when we stick to the truth — abortion kills human beings. We lose when we make it about what the woman did, and what she deserves because of it.