paul ryan redefining rape as "forcible rape" was just "stock language"

[niyad]

(by the way, WHO in the HELL came up with the idea that ALL statuatory and incest are never violent??)


Paul Ryan redefining rape as ‘forcible rape’ was just ‘stock language’

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Monday insisted that wording in a bill that he co-sponsored with Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), which Democrats say would have redefined rape as “forcible rape,” was just “stock language.”

Under the proposed “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” only victims of “forcible rape” would have qualified for federally funding abortions. Victims of non-violent rapes like statutory rape and incest would have been on their own.

The language became a problem for Republicans after Akin, who co-sponsored the bill with Ryan, recently said that women could not get pregnant through “legitimate rape.” The Republican Senate candidate later apologized by explaining that he was actually talking about “forcible rape.”

Since then, Ryan has tried to distance himself from Akin by insisting that “rape is rape.”

But more than a week after the “legitimate rape” comments, even Fox News anchor Brett Baier felt the need to ask Ryan to explain why he “co-sponsored legislation seeking to distinguish between statutory and forcible rape.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/28/paul-ryan-redefining-rape-as-forcible-rape-was-just-stock-language/

[Kalidurga]

1. Ryan doesn't really know what he is talking about...

He is actively trying to change the meaning of words. Well, words can change over time. But, they shouldn't be changed with legislation, that really just mucks things up and makes things more complicated than they need to be. Besides that why is Ryan willing to let girls as young as 9 years old(in theory) have to carry a pregnancy to term? Because the perp was her father or the perp used coercion to rape the girl? Why would this situation be acceptable to anyone? And yes it has happened that a girl as young as 10 had a baby the case made world headlines she is a gypsy and was married.