The new 'legitimate' rape controversy

[charlou]

Fuck the "cockamamey" (sp) rape as the emotional exception string to pull in a debate about abortion. Abortion is the termination of an unwanted pregnancy. Unwanted pregnancy.

[charlou]

Period.

[Ian]

The GOP is trying to distance itself from Todd Akin, while at the same time proposing that the US adopt a constitutional amendment to ban all abortion, with no language for any exceptions: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012 ... f=politics

A week ago Akin was a golden boy, ready to help the Republicans take back the Senate, and now he's a pariah. Why? Not because his politics changed and suddenly he was discovered to be so ludicrously outside the mainstream, but because his knowledge of female anatomy has proved to be embarassingly poor. The adoption of this platform ought to be a bigger controversy; the Republicans are now dominated by the batshit-crazy wing of their party.

[Rum]

What's their position on nuclear arms proliferation, the global economy, global warming, over-population, Iran and so on. Small issues I know, but..

[Robert_S]

What's their position on nuclear arms proliferation, the global economy, global warming, over-population, Iran and so on. Small issues I know, but..

They're all either hoaxes or God's wrath for our iniquity!

[mistermack]

The only conclusion you can possibly draw, is that a majority of the voters in his constituency are even more moronic than he is.

True, that's the only conclusion one could possibly draw if one is that stupid. If one were think about it a for a bit other conclusions would present themselves. Unless one is too stupid to think about them. That does happen here.

I notice that YOU don't offer any of these other conclusions. So I assume YOU are one of those people.

That's the only conclusion one can possibly draw.

Sorry, I was too busy laughing. At you. Maybe later I'll explain, but I'm not feeling any pressure in that department. Hell, you might even figure it out on your own, in 5 or 6 thousand years.

There are people who can help, you know. They're used to dealing with people who don't know what they are laughing at.
It's not all electric shocks these days, things have moved on.

[Gerald McGrew]

What's their position on nuclear arms proliferation

It's fine if they can make money on it.

the global economy

Same answer.

global warming

A hoax by climatologists working with the UN as part of the overall plan to institute a one-world gov't (see UN Agenda 21).

over-population

Can't happen (Gawd said so).

Iran

Nuke 'em (see answer to #1).

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Audley Strange]

You know what that poster would be more effective if the "left" (I use that term laughably, obviously) hadn't been involved in some really weird expansions and legal re-definitions of Rape themselves. It's a game both sides play.

The one above it though. Right on the fucking nose. This should be being condemned by everyone.

[kiki5711]

For this to be coming out of a grown man's mouth, and one especially running for government office, is tooo insane to be true, but it is.
In his mind, after a woman is raped, how long does she need in court to prove that it was "legitimate"? One month, two, three? By that time, it gets more and more complicated to get an abortion in the first place. The Republican religiosity brain dead running the country.

[kiki5711]

That would be the next subject because it makes perfect sense.

[mozg]

For this to be coming out of a grown man's mouth, and one especially running for government office, is tooo insane to be true, but it is.
In his mind, after a woman is raped, how long does she need in court to prove that it was "legitimate"? One month, two, three? By that time, it gets more and more complicated to get an abortion in the first place. The Republican religiosity brain dead running the country.

Certainly no more than 40 weeks.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Where did they get that shit from? Did they just circle-jerk it all into existence by talking bollocks among themselves or are there actually doctors out there that are putting out this kind of lunacy?

It's sickening and worrying.