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In the furor over Todd Akins inventive understanding of biology, we should not lose sight of another matter. His position on abortion--that the victim of rape should be compelled to bear her rapists child--has been the official position of the Republican Party for more than thirty years.
The guy was speaking the truth. Why are the current crop of Repub candidates throwing him under the bus? political expediency perhaps?
Jumping ship: The party platforms no one stands on anymore - Yahoo! News
In the furor over Todd Akin’s inventive understanding of biology, we should not lose sight of another matter. His position on abortion--that the victim of rape should be compelled to bear her rapist’s child--has been the official position of the Republican Party for more than thirty years.
Dot Com felt compelled to start his own rape thread since the 7 others just wont do.
LOL
)Indeed, the language of the GOP platform--all but certain to be adopted in Tampa next week--goes further. It declares that: "Faithful to the 'self-evident' truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.
Taken together with its support for a human life amendment to the Constitution, and for legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children," its platform calls for a ban on all abortions--even to save the life of the mother.
Dot Com felt compelled to start his own rape thread since the 7 others just wont do.
LOL
not "rape" but "legitimate rape"
Dot Com felt compelled to start his own rape thread since the 7 others just wont do.
LOL
not "rape" but "legitimate rape"
I am mildly amused by Liberals who manage to work up a fever about an abstract discussion of rape.....
.....yet couldn't manage to feel actual rage toward the 42nd President, the Democrat who actually raped a women.
Could you explain that disconnect, Dotty?
Dot Com felt compelled to start his own rape thread since the 7 others just wont do.
LOL
not "rape" but "legitimate rape"
This is definitely a war on non-conservative women who don't care for being "submissive" (google Bachmann(R)
Jumping ship: The party platforms no one stands on anymore - Yahoo! News
Indeed, the language of the GOP platform--all but certain to be adopted in Tampa next week--goes further. It declares that: "Faithful to the 'self-evident' truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.
Taken together with its support for a human life amendment to the Constitution, and for legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children," its platform calls for a ban on all abortions--even to save the life of the mother.
not "rape" but "legitimate rape"
I am mildly amused by Liberals who manage to work up a fever about an abstract discussion of rape.....
.....yet couldn't manage to feel actual rage toward the 42nd President, the Democrat who actually raped a women.
Could you explain that disconnect, Dotty?
why don't you start a thread about it? This thread is about contemporary republicans throwing fellow members under the bus for speaking the truth
Dot Com felt compelled to start his own rape thread since the 7 others just wont do.
LOL
not "rape" but "legitimate rape"
I am mildly amused by Liberals who manage to work up a fever about an abstract discussion of rape.....
.....yet couldn't manage to feel actual rage toward the 42nd President, the Democrat who actually raped a women.
Could you explain that disconnect, Dotty?
not "rape" but "legitimate rape"
I am mildly amused by Liberals who manage to work up a fever about an abstract discussion of rape.....
.....yet couldn't manage to feel actual rage toward the 42nd President, the Democrat who actually raped a women.
Could you explain that disconnect, Dotty?
You just hit the nail on the head! Most republican angry white and generally old men think of women as an abstract concept and everything about them is abstract, rape, abortion, birth control, equal pay, etc. It makes it a lot easier to be controlling and hateful towards them, thinking they know it all! Actually, Akin's "abstract comment" reflects exactly the way the republicans are--out of touch and not interested in getting in touch.
not "rape" but "legitimate rape"
I am mildly amused by Liberals who manage to work up a fever about an abstract discussion of rape.....
.....yet couldn't manage to feel actual rage toward the 42nd President, the Democrat who actually raped a women.
Could you explain that disconnect, Dotty?
You just hit the nail on the head! Most republican angry white and generally old men think of women as an abstract concept and everything about them is abstract, rape, abortion, birth control, equal pay, etc. It makes it a lot easier to be controlling and hateful towards them, thinking they know it all! Actually, Akin's "abstract comment" reflects exactly the way the republicans are--out of touch and not interested in getting in touch.
You just hit the nail on the head! Most republican angry white and generally old men think of women as an abstract concept and everything about them is abstract, rape, abortion, birth control, equal pay, etc. It makes it a lot easier to be controlling and hateful towards them, thinking they know it all! Actually, Akin's "abstract comment" reflects exactly the way the republicans are--out of touch and not interested in getting in touch.
Akin's position is no different than the one embodied in the life amendment plank of the Republican party.
