I've had a couple of e-mails wanting to know why I haven't addressed it, or at least made a joke about it... Simply put, I haven't addressed it because every other blogger, pundit, and 'holier-than-thou' yahoo with a keyboard already has. And I haven't joked about it because I don't see any humor in the situation...
But here goes..... when I'm finished, give me ten seconds to duck under my desk before you throw things.
Before we can address the Todd Akin question, we need a quick quiz:
Is Todd Akin;
a. Terminally stupid?
b. Hopelessly misogynistic?
c. Truly misguided in his beliefs?
d. None of the above?
My answer is frankly, Answer 'd'.... none of the above. In my mind, his one big out of the park error was using the word 'legitimate' in the same sentence as rape. Sheesh, talk about lighting a short fuse on a huge bomb!
I immediately did some Googling, and find the man to be totally against murdering babies in the womb. Don't get me wrong, I'm no right to life zealot nor do I wear a Cross on my sleeve. I'm not against next day abortion pills, and, in needed instances I'm not against abortion in the first trimester. But Pilgrims, when it comes to slicin' and dicin' and flushing a viable, pain feeling, almost baby just for convenience sake and because you can't hear him/her scream - then I'm agin it! Even if our POTUS voted for it and worse.
Now, back to SFB Akin (if you ever served in the military, you know what SFB is the acronym for) and his statement. Having read it several times, and looked at his political web sites, and his background, I feel certain that what he was saying was (paraphrased of course) 'Forcible, violent rape attacks rarely cause pregnancy.....".
And a little surfing brings out the fact that only about 2% or 3% of 'forcible' rape attacks actually result in pregnancy. It has nothing to do with a woman's body shutting down, it's just a matter of the odds and percentages of ovulation, conception, fertilization, etc. So Akins was right on his numbers but wrong on the reasons.
Setting that aside... as a true right to lifer, I believe that the man was just saying what he felt..... "Why murder a baby, because it was conceived during the crime of rape?" There are other options ... which I won't list here 'cause we all know them.
So, I give the man a D for making his debate point, but an A for standing up for his convictions. A trait rarely found in politicians these days..
But, when all the screaming is over, and everybody stops beating their phony baloney chests (note I didn't say breasts), the good folks of Missouri will decide at the polls whether Mr. Akins should be their senator. Not you - and not me - and not Obamanation or Ann Coulter.
As an afterthought, have you ever noticed that whenever a Right to Lifer gets questioned by the press, the first loud and long question is, "But, But, But, what about in the case of incest and rape?"
Meanwhile, more than a million babies are murdered in this civilized country EVERY YEAR and nobody asks; But, but, but, how many Jonas Salks, Condoleeza Rice's, Bill Gates, Thomas Edisons, & Henry Fords are murdered in those wombs every year?"
How many times was Ted Kennedy reelected by his Massachusetts constituents after causing the death of an almost baby girl in the back seat of his car. How popular is Bubba Clinton with his party right now after being found guilty of lying about one illegal affair and being accused of many more uninvited forays by responsibly aged women?
C'mon.... get serious....
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