The only open question that was not answered by this article is this —
“Are you going to force the woman to take carea nd raise the baby she was FORCED to have?”
If not, how do you propose to solve this problem?
If only he had a do-over... HE DOESN”T, GET USED TO DISAPPOINTMENT...He’s a donkey’s ass, and there ain’t no changing it...
Should’ve, could’ve, would’ve.....it doesn’t matter. He swallowed his foot on this one.
Here are two articles posted to FR recently.
Stress signal causes abnormal implantation location and pregnancy loss
and
Stress Puts Double Whammy On Reproductive System, Fertility
Now, unless one is willing to say that rape is not stressful, then perhaps the body does have a natural defence against it.
While I don't particularly care about the senator in question because I don't know anything about him to speak of, I might just start spamming this information to relevant threads. He may will be an idiot, but he could be right as well.
He should have said... if you were such a slut in the first place, should have been on birth control anyway.
Go to Massachusets and get on welfare.
Otherwise, get ready for the reckoning day when real conservatives get elected.
This is a discussion we need to have. You can’t be a fiscal conservative and pro-choice. Social costs will destroy the budget.
Pray for America
What Todd Akin should have said was: “I better not answer that; I’m an ignorant mother effer and I don’t have enough sense to answer that question intelligently and I will cause the GOP to lose the MO Senate seat and hurt my party and this nation. So, don’t effin’ ask me, dude.”
Well Barack would allow the baby born alive to be put down. Even if the baby was female.
As bad as akin’s first fumble of the ball except this time he dribbled it before losing it. The question remained unanswered too.
1) It is reprehensible to rake Akin over the coals for misspeaking when he said “legitimate” instead of what he probably meant, “bona fide.” The FBI estimates that ~ 8% of all rape accusations are false. There is also a big difference between forced stranger rape and consensual intercourse between a 15 and a 17 year old.
2) His comment about pregnancy being rare following rape is also true. I was taught this in high school in the 1970s—I guess it’s suddenly untrue now that a conservative said it? While I can’t know why he said that, it may have been an attempt to counter the abortion industry’s vile practice of exploiting rape victims for their sales pitches.
3) He is also completely correct when he says that abortion is no answer. While there seems to be a common belief that a woman’s first reaction to any pregnancy is disgust and a desire to rid herself of the baby ASAP—unless she “wants” it—that simply isn’t true. We’re pretty much programmed to have maternal feelings towards that unborn life, even before we know for certain it exists.
I’ve read that women pregnant from rape are actually LESS likely to abort than women who choose to become pregnant. They’re also more likely to put the child up for adoption. And when they keep the child, they feel like something positive came from the rape—the meme that they relive the rape every time they look at the child is a fabrication, repeated so often by abortion advocates that it seems to have become “common knowledge.”
Very often, a woman who aborts her rape-conceived baby feels that the abortion violated her as much as the rape—not to mention that it burdens her with the overwhelming guilt of having killed her child, a guilt which lasts far longer than the trauma of rape.
To read real accounts of real women who got pregnant from rape, I suggest this website: http://www.rebeccakiessling.com/index.html
What Akin should have said and what he did say are two different things.
Great. Another ARMCHAIR QUARTERBACK who has the perfect ‘response’ to the question, DAYS later. I note he also supplied the QUESTIONS the host SHOULD HAVE ASKED.
Gee... maybe all talk show hosts and their guests should get pre-written scripts from the author of this blog. Then the world would be perfect.
(My version. Not much difference, is there ?)
Host: So you also believe abortion ought to be outlawed in the case of rape?
Akin: Rape is a horrible crime, and a rapist ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I stand for human rights over against anyone who would violate the life of another – from the rapist to the abortionist.
Host:So you also believe abortion ought to be outlawed in the case of rape?
Akin: Absolutely. As I said, I stand for human rights for all, including the unborn.
Host: So you also believe abortion ought to be outlawed in the case of rape?
Akin: It is a tragic situation indeed. And my heart goes out to any woman in such circumstances. That’s why I could never recommend that she abort her child. Inflicting violence upon another innocent victim, in this case the baby, is not the way to move past the tragedy of her own innocence being taken.
Host: So you also believe abortion ought to be outlawed in the case of rape?
Akin: Like I said, I stand for the rights of all human beings. Even in a difficult situation like rape, the unborn child should have human rights. We must not let circumstances dictate to us when humans have rights. Otherwise, we could justify all sorts of atrocities in the name of “difficult circumstances.”
Host: So you also believe abortion ought to be outlawed in the case of rape?
Akin: That’s possible. But let me ask you another question. If a woman chose to carry her child to term and then found that every time she looked at her infant she remembered the horror of the rape, would we allow her to smother the baby?
Host: So you also believe abortion ought to be outlawed in the case of rape?
Akin: You’re right. Because no matter how difficult her circumstances, we recognize the humanity of the infant. Unfortunately, many in our society refuse to recognize the humanity of the unborn.
Host: So you also believe abortion ought to be outlawed in the case of rape?
Akin: Biology textbooks and scientists tell us the same thing we see when we look at a 4-D ultrasound: the fetus is human. Now, you can make the case that the unborn human should not have rights. And many do. That’s why unborn girls are aborted at a much higher rate than unborn boys, not only in places like China but in the United States as well. That’s why the number of children with Down Syndrome has plummeted. That’s why so many abortion clinics target inner-city areas with high minority populations. You see, once we begin to discriminate against some human beings, we are on the fast track to denying human rights for others.
Host: So you also believe abortion ought to be outlawed in the case of rape?
Akin: I believe that all innocent human life should be protected. So, yes. This difficult situation is about three people: the rapist, the mother, and the baby. Currently, there is no death penalty required for the rapist. I refuse to believe we ought to give an innocent victim a sentence more severe than the perpetrator of the crime.
“Even so, as disturbing as Akin’s remarks are, I am concerned about the conflation of issues that suddenly appeared in the aftermath.”
Even so, I am disturbed about the impact the stupid remarks made by this idiot troglodyte will have on our efforts to recapture Congress and dethrone Obama.
And THAT, ULTIMATELY poses a greater threat to the anti-abortion crusade than any need to defend this jerk and support his continuing campaign.
Okay. So his gun went off by mistake and he shot himself... in the head. It is time to get his body off the field.