Posted on 08/23/2012 6:12:14 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The criticisms of the recent absurd comments by Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin, who at this writing is his party’s nominee to take on incumbent Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in November in a contest he had been expected to win, have focused on his clearly erroneous understanding of the human female anatomy. In a now infamous statement, in which he used the bizarre and unheard-of phrase “legitimate rape,” the congressman gave the impression that some rapes of women are not mentally or seriously resisted. This is an antediluvian and misogynistic myth for which there is no basis in fact and which has been soundly and justly condemned.
Akin also stated that the female anatomy can resist unwanted impregnation. This, too, is absurd, offensive and incorrect. Medical science has established conclusively that women cannot internally block an unwanted union of egg and sperm, no matter the relationship between male and female. I think even schoolchildren understand that.
What has gone unmentioned, however, in the cacophony of condemnation by Republicans and Democrats, is the implication in Akin’s comments that rape is not a moral justification for abortion. In that, he is correct: It is not.
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You mean like statutory rapes, right, Judge? Kind of an important example to leave out, don't you think?
She is the one that looked into his eyes, not you.
Oh, do you believe women are just brood mares?
We are not mere dumb animals ~ or 'brood mares' as you suggest.
If we are going to use the authority and power of the state to execute then you should be willing to first prove the truth, and then be willing to carry out the punishment no matter how old the target of execution becomes.
Let's say it took 21 years to determine the truth in a specific instance, and your target of execution is an adult. Do you imagine that it is just to send the executioner out to strike her down just because you think she is an animal? What about her own children, or "spawn" ~ do you get to kill them too?
Frankly private murder is no basis for a modern society.
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