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A Mighty Fortress Is Todd Akin's Vagina
He may be gone tomorrow from the senate race but he is still in the House and sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
This is a good article to read more on this.
http://gawker.com/5936304/a-mighty-fortress-is-todd-akins-vagina?utm_source=Gawker+Newsletter&utm_campaign=bec600bc5e-UA-142218-2&utm_medium=email
One wonders how he explains the thousands of Congolese children who are the products of rape as a military tactic; perhaps the bayonets and guns pointed at the moms prevented their vaginas from struggling "enough." And God only knows how Akin actually imagines this working biologically. A disdain for trauma this cartoonishly stupid might actually be the product of a grasp of biology indistinguishable from a cartoon.
The political response was fairly easy to process, too—taking note of how Akin is part of a bigger picture of contempt for rape victims. Last year Akin and Paul Ryan co-sponsored the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." Federal programs like Medicaid are already prohibited from paying for abortions, except in the case of rape, but Akin and Ryan's bill attempted to reduce the scope of that rape exemption. Statutory rape, incest and rape by coercion or drugging would, ostensibly, have been off the table. The only legal exemption would have been in cases of "forcible rape."
The political response was fairly easy to process, too—taking note of how Akin is part of a bigger picture of contempt for rape victims. Last year Akin and Paul Ryan co-sponsored the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." Federal programs like Medicaid are already prohibited from paying for abortions, except in the case of rape, but Akin and Ryan's bill attempted to reduce the scope of that rape exemption. Statutory rape, incest and rape by coercion or drugging would, ostensibly, have been off the table. The only legal exemption would have been in cases of "forcible rape."