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That's what he said today, after saying the party's platform isn't Romney's platform.
Not that I have heard.
That's what he said today, after saying the party's platform isn't Romney's platform.
But it doesn't... McCain didn't really have to address it. If not for Akin, it's probably not such a prominent topic now either....
It still surfaces pretty hard every 4 years regardless. The only reason McCain didn't have to address it much is because he's more liberal than conservative.
Okay, although McCain position is no different that Romney's...
The hardcore GOP stance on abortion is no exceptions even if it's rape, incest, or to save the mother's life.
I believe that when a politician has to clarify what he/she "really meant", then they ed up by already stating what they "really meant".......I'm looking at you Barry and Biden.
yes, the progressive people have pointed out gleefully how the Repug platform and Christian Taleban "moral legislators" have put historically moderate Gecko in a severe bind. He was actually quite moderate in MA (otherwise, he wouldn't have be electable in a solidly blue state). Now he's being dragged into the intellectual/moral/puritanical/vindictive/punitive cesspool of "Christian" Taleban.
Todd Akin’s ‘Legitimate Rape’ Timing Couldn’t Be Worse for Republicans
Just as voters are taking a serious look at Romney and Ryan—and the Republican convention is finalizing its anti-abortion platform—Todd Akin’s stunning ignorance has women rushing for the exits, says former Bush and McCain adviser Mark McKinnon.
So now we can expect days of discussion about Republicans and abortion, and a heightened focus on the platform language that was drafted Monday: “Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanc y of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Cons ution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.” That means no exceptions. Not rape. Not incest. Not the life of the mother.
The head of the platform committee is Gov. Bob McDonnell, who attracted national attention when the Virginia legislature considered legislation making ultrasounds mandatory for any woman seeking an abortion.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...=Cheat%20Sheet
Another religious nut forcing his religion into his secular job.
A Politician Whose Faith Is Central to His Persistence
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Throughout his political career, Representative Todd Akin's agenda has been driven by a belief that his mission came from God.
As a Republican member of Congress, he has sponsored legislation to name 2008 "The National Year of the Bible," and to promote greater recognition of the Ten Commandments. A member of the Presbyterian Church in America, Mr. Akin has accused liberals of trying to remove God from the public sphere. And as the Republican establishment closed ranks on him Tuesday, trying to force him to withdraw from the Missouri Senate race after his controversial remarks about rape and abortion, Mr. Akin provided divine reasoning as to why he would not quit.
It was "appropriate to recognize a creator, God, whose blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the very source of American freedom," Mr. Akin, 65, said in a radio interview. "And that part of the message I feel is missing" from the campaign, he said, adding, "That's the reason why we're going to continue. Because I believe there is a cause here."
Mr. Akin's defiance and insistence that even without the establishment's support, he can defeat the in bent Democrat, Senator Claire McCaskill, in a race that could decide the balance of power in the Senate was indicative of his nearly quarter-century in politics in which he regularly embraced the underdog role, relying on grass-roots support and his faith to power him through.
Outspoken and blunt - too blunt, some might say - Mr. Akin, 65, is no stranger to incendiary comments. He has criticized federal spending on things like school lunches and student loans and has been quick to equate government spending to socialism.
" 'God called me to run' - that's the way he thinks," said Jeff Smith, a former Democratic state senator in Missouri, said of Mr. Akin, a six-term congressman who represents parts of eastern Missouri. "I think he thinks it's his destiny, and so you're going to have to get somebody pretty high up there - or, in his mind, pretty close to God - to push him out."
Before Sunday, Mr. Akin was favored to defeat Ms. McCaskill. But then a Fox affiliate in St. Louis showed an interview in which he said that women possess a biological mechanism to ward off pregnancy if they become victims of "legitimate rape." Major donors responded by saying they would cut off Mr. Akin's financing. Prominent national Republican officials have asked him to drop out of the race, fearing he could not win.
Mr. Akin was first elected to the Missouri House in 1988 and much of his base in his early years as a legislator came from being a part of a network of parents who home-schooled their children. All six of his children were home-schooled. His election to Congress in 2000 was a stroke of good fortune, local political analysts said. He was seen as an outside candidate in a five-way Republican primary that he won by 56 votes, in part because the more moderate candidates cut into each other's tally.
In the three-person Republican Senate primary this year, Mr. Akin also was not favored, yet he won in part because Ms. McCaskill and her supporters spent nearly $2 million on advertisements highlighting his conservatism. This was part of the McCaskill camp's strategy to help Mr. Akin win the race, as it thought he would be the easiest candidate to beat in the general election.
William Todd Akin was born in New York on July 5, 1947, but grew up in St. Louis, near where his family had a steel business. He is, in some ways, an enigma.
While he home-schooled all of his children and is appealing mostly to a working-class cons uency, he graduated from an elite suburban St. Louis prep school, John Burroughs. He got a degree in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Ins ute before earning a master's in divinity from the Covenant Theological Seminary in Missouri.
He worked as a manager at now-bankrupt Laclede Steel, the company his great-grandfather founded and served at as president, succeeded by Mr. Akin's grandfather and father. Mr. Akin's great-grandfather, grandfather and father all attended Harvard.
Mr. Akin chose a different career path, one influenced by his faith.
Rick Mathes, of the Mission Gate Prison Ministry, where Mr. Akin serves on the advisory board, said that Mr. Akin's beliefs drive his political approaches and work. "He wouldn't violate his beliefs if you shot him," said Mr. Mathes, who added that he and Mr. Akin, who participates in Bible studies and prayer groups, were "far to the right" of people like Rush Limbaugh.
Mr. Akin, said Mr. Mathes, believed that "America needs to be returned to its roots, its Judeo-Christian roots."
Yet officials worry that though Mr. Akin has had success speaking to an evangelical cons uency, he would struggle in appealing to diverse groups of voters.
But Jonathan Sternberg, a state Republican committee member, said he was drawn to Mr. Akin by his well-spoken, common-sense economic approach. At one event, Mr. Akin spoke of how he had to tell President George W. Bush that he could not vote for education, Medicare and bailout bills that the Mr. Bush asked him to support because of their budgetary implications.
Still, he acknowledged that Mr. Akin's mouth could sometimes get him into trouble. "Todd Akin works so hard and tears himself so ragged," Mr. Sternberg said, "that he has the propensity to say things without thinking."
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=963051&f=19
The guy did not misspeak. He said exactly what he meant to say. He does not want an exclusion to his no abortion law that allows for women who have been raped. He believes that women will say they have been raped in order to get the abortion and to prevent this he is claiming that if she got pregnant, then she must not have really been raped.
I also have major issue with the use of the phrase violent or forcible rape. All rape is forcible and violent.
No it appears this time it was Paul Ryan who was doing backflips though hoops to pretend he did not sponsor a person-hood law.
Ryan Refuses To Say Abortions Should Be Available To Women Who Are Raped
QUESTION: Should abortions to be available to women who are raped?
RYAN: Well, look, I’m proud of my pro-life record. And I stand by my pro-life record in Congress. It’s something I’m proud of. But Mitt Romney is the top of the ticket and Mitt Romney will be president and he will set the policy of the Romney administration.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...who-are-raped/
Steve King Has “Never Heard” Of Pregnancy From Statutory Rape
King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.
“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a cir stance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”
By Akin’s logic, a logic shared by Mike Huckabee, Steve King, Ron Paul and countless others in the Republican party, this lack of evidence of conception means that an exception to an abortion ban in the cases of statutory rape are not needed.
A 1996 report by the Guttmacher Ins ute found that at least half of all babies born to minor women are fathered by adult men.
That, by definition, is childbirth as a result of statutory rape. But most importantly is the big picture here. These are not isolated, unhinged comments by the fringe of the Republican party. This is their platform.
http://www.care2.com/causes/steve-ki...#ixzz24Hjdbkt5
"I haven't encountered or heard of personally statutorially raped girls who are pregnant, but I'm willing to talk about it"
I'm pretty sure his views on this are "evolving".Ryan Refuses To Say Abortions Should Be Available To Women Who Are Raped
QUESTION: Should abortions to be available to women who are raped?
RYAN: Well, look, I’m proud of my pro-life record. And I stand by my pro-life record in Congress. It’s something I’m proud of. But Mitt Romney is the top of the ticket and Mitt Romney will be president and he will set the policy of the Romney administration.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...who-are-raped/
Ryan: Women’s Health Exception Rendered Abortion Ban ‘Virtually Meaningless’
RYAN: "This is not a political issue, this is a human issue. And let me just say this — to all of my colleagues who are about to vote on this issue, on the motion to recommit — the health exception is a loophole wide enough to drive a mack truck through it. The health exception would render this ban virtually meaningless. [...] [H]undreds of OB/GYNs have told us that this is not medically necessary."
Contra Ryan’s claim that the procedure (also known as “intact dilatation and extraction,” or D&E) could never be medically necessary, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists held that D&E reduced the risk of “catastrophic hemorrhage and life-threatening infection” and that “[t]hese safety advantages are widely recognized by experts in the field of women’s health, authoritative medical texts, peer-reviewed studies, and the nation’s leading medical schools.” As such, the American Medical Association, which believes D&E would be employed for health reasons in only a very small number of cases, said that “the physician must…retain the discretion” to use D&E if a particular woman’s health needs demand it.
Ryan’s position, by contrast, was most recently defended by former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), who called a provision designed to protect women from catastrophic hemorrhaging and infections “a phony exception which would make the ban ineffective.” This is all of a piece with Ryan’s long history of anti-choice zealotry, as he has cosponsored bills redefining rape and defining fetuses as persons with Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO). An absolutist position on abortion more broadly is enshrined in the GOP’s 2012 platform. Governor Romney has committed to exceptions for rape and incest, and Ryan defers to him in setting policy for the ticket.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012...y-meaningless/
Dear Rep. King: Meet a Pregnant Rape Victim
Following in Rep. Todd Akin’s footsteps, evangelical extremist Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said today of pregnancy from rape, “Well I just haven’t heard of that being a cir stance that’s been brought to me in any personal way, and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.” It is estimated that some 32,000 American rape victims are made pregnant by their rapists every year in the US.
Science has actually found that raped women are more likely to get pregnant.
http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/dear...pe-victim.html
Birds & Bees according to Repug Reproductive Faith/Ideology-Based Science
LOL war on women. Pffffft.
The "Christian"/Repug War on Vaginas is real, relentless, and it will cost the Repugs Ms of female votes.
"A Republican running for county sheriff in New Hampshire is facing calls to leave the race after he suggested it is acceptable to use deadly force to stop a doctor from performing an abortion. "
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...zabo-abortion/
murderous Sheriff apologies are as credible as Akin apologies.
Akin ain't an outlier, he TYPIFIES Repug/"Christian" ideological/"Christian" War on Vaginas that the Repugs didn't want pushed front and center in their LIE-saturated campaign (and the worst of Rove is yet to come).
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