Todd Akin Has Friends in High Places

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   Sooner28posted 11 years ago

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/2 … 18285.html
   
   The official GOP platform is now against abortion in ALL circumstances, no exceptions.  Bryan Fisher is also supporting Akin. 
   
   Try as you might GOP, you won't be able to fully distance yourself from someone who Paul Ryan co-sponsored a bill with to redefine rape and criminalize abortion.  http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112h … r212ih.pdf
   
   http://www.businessinsider.com/todd-aki … ney-2012-8
   
   If Akin needs to step down, the co-sponsor of the "No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act" should also step down.  He tried to legislate exactly what Akin is condemned for saying!
   
   I know it won't happen though.  That would mean a politician came dangerously close to being consistent with their condemnation, and that is above their mental capacity.

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      Mighty Momposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      not to mention their moral capacity.

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         Sooner28posted 11 years agoin reply to this

         That too :p

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      rhamsonposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      If you wait till after the election, win or lose, the subject will go away and the media will pick up another non-issue to stir up the masses. This is all smoke and mirrors designed to get the candidate of the Oligarchys' choice in office so control is affirmed or re-established.

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         Sooner28posted 11 years agoin reply to this

         Hmm.   I agree with half of what you said.  However, I wouldn't say a misogynistic lawmaker who tried to define rape as "forcible" is a "non-issue."

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            rhamsonposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            This something one side is trying to interject into the vernacular as they always do with every election. Look how well Obamacare with its mandate that private insurance companies must provide "free" coverage of contraception and sterilization procedures, as well as an abortion pill called "ella"--which is much friendlier sounding than its "close chemical relative" RU-486 has been recieved and this is a LAW that will take congress to recind. It is an issue that is being addressed but it is also scare tactics that are used in every election to scare people to one side or the other.

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         psycheskinnerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         It's a non-issue unless you are a woman of reproductive age who might, with some bad luck, end up living this nightmare of being forced to carry your rapist's child.

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            rhamsonposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            As long as congress is in this stalemate and the leaders in the seate refuse to vote on it it will get very little momentum. Besides do you think Obama will sign it?

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