Akin Illustrates What is Wrong With the GOP
20 Aug 2012Sorry. More politics.
You want a summation of what's wrong with the GOP, and its terrorist wing, the Tea Party?
In an effort to explain his stance on abortion, Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, provoked ire across the political spectrum on Sunday by saying that in instances of what he called ‘legitimate rape,’ women’s bodies somehow blocked an unwanted pregnancy.
Ok. Reprehensible statement. Idiotic. But not unexpected from a pro-lifer.
Mr. Akin, a six-term member of Congress who is backed by Tea Party conservatives, made it clear that his opposition to the practice was nearly absolute, even in instances of rape.
Yeah. So, he's a Tea Partier. That makes a bit more sense. In their world, everything is black and white.
“It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Mr. Akin said of pregnancies from rape. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.
Err. Ok. In context, that's way worse. Not only is it just morally reprehensible, and politically suicidal, that shows a complete lack of understanding of basic elementary science. Oh well, just another politician who has no regard for science. I suppose it could be worse.
Mr. Akin, who has a background in engineering and is a member of the House science committee
WHAT?! He's on the House science committee? How the hell does someone who doesn't understand how babies are made get onto the House science committee? Double-you. Tee. Eff.
(Via the New York Times.)