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Legitimate Rape and Paul Ryan
Author: Raine
Date: 08/20/2012 13:37:42
That's what Missouri GOP candidate for Senate said. here is the statement:
I find it amazing and infuriating that anyone would consider rape at ALL legitimate and even more astounded that someone would push such a line of bullshit about women and their bodies. This man is an embarrassment to all men. Worse than that, he is dangerous not to just uninformed people but to the nation.Can it get any worse?
Yes, yes it can. That is Todd Akin behind VP candidate Paul Ryan.
Mother Jones reports just how much worse it can get. Got that? Paul Ryan co-sponsored that bill with this congressperson --- who is now running for Senate. The vice-presidential candidate is also trying to redefine rape. No apology in the world can ever be enough.
The Romney campaign issued a statement: No denouncement in the world can undo what the GOP has done. Romney and the rest of the GOP can run as fast and as far from Todd Akin as they want, but they are joined forever by this horrible statement, and their previous cooperation on the rape definition bill. That - they cannot run from.
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Raine
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in a clip posted to YouTube by the Democratic super PAC American Bridge. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
Akin added: “But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”
Akin issued a statement Sunday afternoon saying he misspoke.
I find it amazing and infuriating that anyone would consider rape at ALL legitimate and even more astounded that someone would push such a line of bullshit about women and their bodies. This man is an embarrassment to all men. Worse than that, he is dangerous not to just uninformed people but to the nation.Can it get any worse?
Mother Jones reports just how much worse it can get.
This isn't the first time Akin has expressed fringe views about rape in the context of the abortion debate. Last year, Akin, vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and most of the House GOP co-sponsored a bill that would have narrowed the already-narrow exceptions to the laws banning federal funding for abortion—from all cases of rape to cases of "forcible rape."
The Romney campaign issued a statement:
“Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin’s statement, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape,’’ a Romney campaign spokeswoman, Amanda Henneberg, wrote.
Although Mr. Romney has stated this position before, Mr. Ryan, a seven-term congressman from Wisconsin, has opposed abortion in the case of rape. During his first run for the seat in 1998, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that he opposed abortions in all cases except to save the life of the mother.
More recently, Mr. Ryan was a co-sponsor of a House bill last year defining human life as beginning with fertilization and granting “personhood’’ rights to embryos, a movement that supporters say will outlaw abortions in all cases, and may also restrict some forms of birth control.
and Raine
