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Related: About this forumAkin Bad: Paul Ryan’s ‘Forcible Rape’ Bill Co-Sponsor Drags Him Into Daylight
Akin Bad: Paul Ryans Forcible Rape Bill Co-Sponsor Drags Him Into Daylight
As reprehensible as they are, current US Congressman and possible US Senator Rep. Todd Akins (R-MO) remarks on the medical effects of legitimate rape are a gift to voters, who will now be exposed to the truth about vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who co-sponsored a bill that insisted on an abortion exception only in cases of forcible rape.
The remarks also shine a light on the Romney/Ryan tickets competing views on rape and reproductive freedom, issues that might otherwise have been overlooked.
In case you missed it, Akin told an interviewer that pregnancy resulting from rape is really rare because If its a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
The medical basis for Akins statement appears to be a recently-published study from The New England Journal of Todd Akins Ass, but the subtext is that not all rapes are created equal, an idea that was nearly codified into law by Akin and Rep. Paul Ryan, along with 216 other Republicans (and 10 Democrats!).
H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, originally contained language restricting the exception for federally-funded abortions to an act of forcible rape or, if a minor, an act of incest, and offered no further clarification of the term. On its face, the law would have eliminated statutory rape (on the premise that, what? That ten year-old clearly was into it?), but also left open the possibility that rapes involving drugging, or even rapes that did not result in serious enough injuries to the victim, would fail to fit the definition. He held a gun to your head? Wheres the gun? Did you check to see if it was loaded?
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Full article here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/akin-bad-paul-ryans-forcible-rape-bill-co-sponsor-drags-him-into-daylight/
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Akin Bad: Paul Ryan’s ‘Forcible Rape’ Bill Co-Sponsor Drags Him Into Daylight (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Aug 2012
OP
This just pure evil. What world does Paul Ryan inhabit? It doesn't get much worse
WestSeattle2
Aug 2012
#2
Think of it this way. Paul Ryan and Todd Akin are from the right side of the railroad tracks or town
LiberalFighter
Aug 2012
#3
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)1. Remember all that bullshit....
about Paul Ryan being likable and personable? Wait till voters really get the opportunity to learn that Paul Ryan is one of the most hard right ideologues in the United States Congress. This guy has a voting record, and the more it comes to light, the more you see he's a complete lunatic driven by a desire for power.
Little shit probably secretly hates his mother, too.
WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)2. This just pure evil. What world does Paul Ryan inhabit? It doesn't get much worse
than this.
Or does it? Paul? Since Romney obviously didn't vet you, do you have anything to add to the growing list of absurdities?
LiberalFighter
(50,826 posts)3. Think of it this way. Paul Ryan and Todd Akin are from the right side of the railroad tracks or town
And they consider themselves elite.
They think it is their God given right to have sex with anyone they want. And of course if they do it it isn't rape.