Legitimate rape victims don't get pregnant

[Phokus]

I don't think you could be a bigger piece of partisan shit if you tried.

Oh yeah, i'm totally out of line for calling out the party of racism, xenophobia, nationalism, homophobia, misogyny, anti-intellectualism, torture, and war.

 

[sportage]

We have a shortage of clean air, clean water, affordable housing, but no shortage on brainless politicians.
BTW, no doubt he will win...
Lets see just how low we can go.

 

[sportage]

One Republican makes a stupid comment

Its a trend.

 

[Darwin333]

This idiots argument aside, I have never understood pro-lifers that have "exceptions".

If you honestly believe that abortion is the murdering of an innocent child how can there ever be an exception that makes murdering an innocent child ok? I understand that rape is a horrible thing and having to birth the child or your rapist is insult to injury but since when does that justify killing an innocent person as you believe abortion is?

 

[Darwin333]

Rep. Paul Ryan cosponsored a bill with Rep. Todd Akin on restricting Medicaid funding for abortions which has a provision exception for life of the mother and cases of rape. The bill would have redefined the exception to cases of "forcible rape." Paul Ryan opposes abortions in all cases except to save the life of the mother. I think someone needs to ask Paul Ryan if he agrees with Rep. Akin.

Frankly, he is much more consistent than the majority of pro-lifers. I might not agree with his stance but he gets a few points from me for being consistent.

As I said, if you believe abortion is actually murder of an innocent person why would you make exceptions in which what you believe is the murder or an innocent person is "ok"?

 

[nehalem256]

Oh yeah, i'm totally out of line for calling out the party of racism, xenophobia, nationalism, homophobia, misogyny, anti-intellectualism, torture, and war.

Because not giving special privileges to people of certain races is racism

Damn the party that will put American (ie your) interests first

Because believing marriage has a definition/purpose makes you scared of the gays

Because not passing special laws to protect "independent" women is misogyny

Because dumping water on the heads of "people" who personally behead others is "wrong"

Yet another example of liberal tolerance

 

[diesbudt]

So says this medical expert and expected Senator-to-be:

Too bad the female body doesn't have biological defenses against birthing morons. More and vid at link:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

And these are the people running our country.

Don't we feel so warm and cozy now.

 

[Phokus]

Because not giving special privileges to people of certain races is racism

Damn the party that will put American (ie your) interests first

Because believing marriage has a definition/purpose makes you scared of the gays

Because not passing special laws to protect "independent" women is misogyny

Because dumping water on the heads of "people" who personally behead others is "wrong"

Yet another example of liberal tolerance

1. Your own party leadership disagrees with you:

Following Bush's re-election, Ken Mehlman, Bush's campaign manager and Chairman of the RNC, held several large meetings with African-American business, community, and religious leaders. In his speeches, he apologized for his party's use of the Southern Strategy in the past. When asked about the strategy of using race as an issue to build GOP dominance in the once-Democratic South, Mehlman replied, "Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions," and, "by the '70s and into the '80s and '90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African-American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southe...ents_on_Southernization_and_Southern_strategy

Also, see Lee Atwater, Karl Rove's predecessor:

Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist, reported a 1981 interview with Lee Atwater, published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Alexander P. Lamis, in which Lee Atwater discussed politics in the South:
You start out in 1954 by saying, "n*****, n*****, n*****." By 1968 you can't say "n*****"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.[36]
And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "n*****, n*****".[7]

2. Nationalism is the opposite of putting my interests first. Nationalism is what bankrupted our country, both monetarily and morally.

3. Because believing gays shouldn't have the same right to marriage as you. Because believing gays shouldn't be allowed to serve the country. Because believing gays are all sexual deviants. Because believing gays caused 9/11.

4. Protecting women from mysognists you mean.

5. We prosecuted Japanese soldiers for waterboarding as torture. Also, we tortured innocent people, including Canadian and German nationals. This included cutting up genitals.

Edit: Still waiting for Sean Hannity to get waterboarded as he promised. I guess he figured out fast that waterboarding is a helluva lot more 'uncomfortable' than what it sounds like.

You're retarded.

Well, at least you implicitly admitted you guys lust for war, are anti-intellectual, and are xenophobic. That's a step in the right direction.

 

[Matt1970]

2. Nationalism is the opposite of putting my interests first. Nationalism is what bankrupted our country, both monetarily and morally.

Maybe you need to look up the definition of Nationalism.

 

[Phokus]

Maybe you need to look up the definition of Nationalism.

Maybe you need to:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nationalism?s=t

excessive patriotism; chauvinism.

That's the definition i use.

 

[nehalem256]

1. Your own party leadership disagrees with you:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southe...ents_on_Southernization_and_Southern_strategy

Also, see Lee Atwater, Karl Rove's predecessor:



2. Nationalism is the opposite of putting my interests first. Nationalism is what bankrupted our country, both monetarily and morally.

3. Because believing gays shouldn't have the same right to marriage as you. Because believing gays shouldn't be allowed to serve the country. Because believing gays are all sexual deviants. Because believing gays caused 9/11.

4. Protecting women from mysognists you mean.

5. We prosecuted Japanese soldiers for waterboarding as torture. Also, we tortured innocent people, including Canadian and German nationals. This included cutting up genitals.

1.) So your proof is a 30 year old interview.
2.) or from the dictionary

the policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one's own nation, viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations.

3.) Gays do have the same right to marriage as me. They just choose not to exercise that right. And established court precedence agrees with me word for word
4.) I do not think you even know what that word means. Liberals are the ones who claim women are "equal" and "independent" and then pass a whole host of laws to grant them special protections. The double think is strong with you.

5.) Can you provide evidence for this genital cutting?

 

[kia75]

This idiots argument aside, I have never understood pro-lifers that have "exceptions".

If you honestly believe that abortion is the murdering of an innocent child how can there ever be an exception that makes murdering an innocent child ok? I understand that rape is a horrible thing and having to birth the child or your rapist is insult to injury but since when does that justify killing an innocent person as you believe abortion is?

Truthfully, being anti-abortion isn't about the life of the child, its about punishing promiscuous women. This is why women who were raped get a pass on abortions. They weren't doing something that is wrong, so they shouldn't have to face the punishment.

This is also why the anti-abortion advocates oppose any sort of sex education other then abstinence, especially when studies show again and again the best way to lower abortions is to teach people how to use condoms and birth control.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

Just watched CNN he apologized, claims he misspoke. Still an ass clown though.

He didn't misspeak, he just doesn't want to deal with the consequences of what he said.

This isn't the first (or the last) time that the GOP has claimed these sorts of things:

1995: link

"The facts show that people who are raped -- who are truly raped -- the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work and they don't get pregnant," said Aldridge, a 71-year-old periodontist. "Medical authorities agree that this is a rarity, if ever."

2003: link

Holmes argued in a 1997 article co-written with his wife for a Catholic publication that “the wife is to subordinate herself to her husband.” In another article, he incorrectly claimed that “concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami.”

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/7642/in-judicial-twist-republicans-seen-stalling-bush/#ixzz246ChbtOJ

1988: link

The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are "one in millions and millions and millions," said state Rep. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, the Legislature's leading abortion foe.

The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to "secrete a certain secretion" that tends to kill sperm.

2012: link

“Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this," Winder said on the Senate floor. "I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that's part of the counseling that goes on.”

The GOP has a long history of claiming that rape doesn't cause pregnancy, and the corollary is that if you are raped and get pregnant, the GOP seems to think that you must not actually have been raped, (AKA "asking for it", "whore", "her fault", etc,etc, etc)

So to them, you weren't really raped if you get pregnant from rape.

 

[Phokus]

1.) So your proof is a 30 year old interview.
2.) or from the dictionary
3.) Gays do have the same right to marriage as me. They just choose not to exercise that right. And established court precedence agrees with me word for word
4.) I do not think you even know what that word means. Liberals are the ones who claim women are "equal" and "independent" and then pass a whole host of laws to grant them special protections. The double think is strong with you.

5.) Can you provide evidence for this genital cutting?

1) But, Ken Mehlman's apology was back around 2005.

2) Yes, lets look up the dictionary:

excessive patriotism; chauvinism.

Nationalism has a negative connotation and that's really closer to how people use the word.

And thanks to nationalism, you fucking morons cheer on trillion dollar useless wars that bankrupt us financially and morally. And now you want to attack Iran as if your other debacles weren't bad enough.

3) Stop being pedantic, gays do not have the same rights as us. You idiots even cheered Scalia for dissenting on Lawrence V Texas for wanting to uphold anti-sodomy laws.

4) Oh forgive us for not wanting women to be paid less for doing the exact same job or wanting access to contraceptives!

 

[Atreus21]

One Republican makes a stupid comment and liberal 'logic' uses this as justification to smear all Republicans. Really?

Well yeah dude.

 

[Atreus21]

This idiots argument aside, I have never understood pro-lifers that have "exceptions".

If you honestly believe that abortion is the murdering of an innocent child how can there ever be an exception that makes murdering an innocent child ok? I understand that rape is a horrible thing and having to birth the child or your rapist is insult to injury but since when does that justify killing an innocent person as you believe abortion is?

There is an argument from self-defense to be made in favor of aborting a pregnancy resulting from rape. If a woman did not consent to the act, she can legitimately claim she is not bound to the consequences, even if that means taking a life.

I'd consider a rape-victim who spares her child's life as a heroine. But I can't find it within myself to force it on them.

If we outlawed abortions except in cases of rape or other type of non-consent, we'd be a far more humane society.

 

[nehalem256]

3) Stop being pedantic, gays do not have the same rights as us. You idiots even cheered Scalia for dissenting on Lawrence V Texas for wanting to uphold anti-sodomy laws.

4) Oh forgive us for not wanting women to be paid less for doing the exact same job or wanting access to contraceptives!

3.) Yes they do. They are free to marry anyone of the opposite sex

4.) Women are not paid the less for the exact same job. The 77cents statistics that liberals so widely quote fails to take into account the job or experience. You are essentially alleging a conspiracy theory that has spanned for decades involving every corporation(including those RUN BY WOMEN) to pay men more for the same work.

And contraceptives are available at many fine retailers. What they want is to force men to purchase contraceptives for "independent" women they are not having sex with.

 

[nehalem256]

Truthfully, being anti-abortion isn't about the life of the child, its about punishing promiscuous women. This is why women who were raped get a pass on abortions. They weren't doing something that is wrong, so they shouldn't have to face the punishment.

So I assume this mean that when liberals force men to pay child support to women, because they CHOOSE,to have a child, that they are punishing men for being promiscuous? :sneaky:

 

[jaydee]

I'm confused. Did he say rape victims "don't get pregnant" or "rarely get pregnant"? I'm neither dem, nor repub.

 

[zsdersw]

Because believing marriage has a definition/purpose makes you scared of the gays

No, but it's quite obvious that a majority of those who are homophobic are Republicans specifically and socially conservative in general.

Of the two major parties, the Republicans are in the closet... and have to apologize for and hide their sexual orientation. They're the more homophobic party.

 

[mizzou]

Missourian's are some of the most enigmatic political people I've ever known

Always capable of making the best and worst decisions, but with no predictability.

 

[hal2kilo]

So says this medical expert and expected Senator-to-be:

Too bad the female body doesn't have biological defenses against birthing morons. More and vid at link:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

This clown is on the House Science, Space and Technology committee.

Hope he didn't home school his kids.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I've tried to conjure up an appropriate reply to this, but it's impossible...to much facepalm.

 

[JKing106]

Because not giving special privileges to people of certain races is racism

Damn the party that will put American (ie your) interests first

Because believing marriage has a definition/purpose makes you scared of the gays

Because not passing special laws to protect "independent" women is misogyny

Because dumping water on the heads of "people" who personally behead others is "wrong"

Yet another example of liberal tolerance

Another moron authoritarian robot who couldn't think outside the box if his life depended on it. Don't worry, there will always be people willing to tell you what to do and what to think, grasshopper.

 

[ch33zw1z]

^ Beware the troll.