Let me begin by saying that Todd Akin has acted like a total tool recently. First he made a completely asinine comment about the female body and ‘legitimate rape.’ Then he made it worse by refusing to drop out of the Senate race in Missouri against Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill.
Akin needed to take one for the team and step down, in order to avoid painting all Republicans with the out-of-touch, we-don’t-care-about-rape-victims brush. Even though most of us (including our presidential candidate Mitt Romney!) have firmly stated our opposition to his insensitive, science-bending comment, there are those that don’t take us seriously.
Listen up, one and all: Todd Akin does not speak for my party or my gender on this matter. No, I don’t believe that women’s bodies have the ability to recognize that sperm from rape is different from sperm from lovemaking. I certainly don’t think that women that get pregnant after a rape deserved to be marginalized to the point of being accused by the likes of Akin saying that ‘legitimate’ rapes don’t result in pregnancy.
I have long been an advocate for the unborn, and I believe that the choice in regard to our bodies comes before conception, when a woman decides whether or not to have sex. I have neither stated nor ever believed that women should be denied access to health care, birth control, or prenatal care. I believe that women should decide for themselves when and how to become sexually active, and I believe we are strong enough to live through any consequences that occur from that decision.
Rape is different. Rape takes away the choice; it forces the victim into a nightmarish situation that will change the course of her life, regardless of whether or not a pregnancy occurs. I can’t begin to fathom what a women goes through finding out she’s carrying her rapist’s child, so I’m not even going to try, let alone make any blanket statements as to how she should handle it.
What I can talk about is Todd Akin, and how he completely and totally blew it. He lost the election with his comment, and he lost his opportunity to show some real remorse when he refused to step down. He damaged his own career and public image, but he did not damage the party. Of course there will be fringe people that will still support him, but the rest of us will move on to other winnable Senate seats, not to mention support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
Now can we please talk about the sixteen trillion dollars of debt we’re going to have to figure out how to pay back?
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THANK YOU THANK YOU AND THANK YOU.
Anyways, I love how you dressed up being anti-women as "an advocate for the unborn." It sounds much nicer that way.
Yes. He's a bastoid.
Put him in the past now where he belongs and on to MUCH more important things. He's old news.
Where is that misspelling Ash? I've gone over this with a fine tooth comb and can't find the misspelled word.
Also, not believing in abortion does NOT make you anti-woman. Are you on crack?
While this election is, and should be, about more than a woman's right to choose, there are elements of the Republican platform that I cannot abide. Should Roe v. Wade be overturned, there are scenarios in which women could be forced to carry a child they did not consent to carry, be fired from their jobs because of an inability to perform the tasks of that job, lose health insurance as a result of being fired, and have to bear the burden of the medical costs involved with the birth of that child. I am not willing to vote for a candidate for which this is a possibility. I don't care if it happens to ONE woman, it's not acceptable in the most powerful country in the world. Moreover, I'm not willing to vote for a candidate who refuses to be a "job creator" because he keeps his massive fortune outside of this country, refuses to tell corporations to keep our air and water clean, and yet is still preoccupied with whether or not women in this country have access to quality health care. Not. Gonna. Do it.