re: #68 EdDantes

Thank you for understanding my point. To summarize:

1. I don’t believe that GOP’ers believe that women have a natural defense against conception through rape.

2. “legitimate” rape is an oxymoron.

3. I don’t know why Akin would now be supported by conservatives other than the expectation of gaining a senate seat. In which case I would call that a Pyrrhic victory.

1. was always a diversion. Physicians for Life, the org that Akin got his information from, posited that the physical trauma from a “real” violent rape would tend to cause a miscarriage.

2. Yet it is exactly what the GOP has tried to legislate, the idea that it’s not rape unless there’s actual documented violence involved. Not the threat of violence, not overwhelming physical intimidation, not the display of a weapon nor statutory rape, but only actual violence leaving physical trauma.

3. Conservatives are supporting Akin because he’s what the modern national GOP has become, an atavistic throwback diametrically opposed to abortion in any conceivable circumstance.