And THIS is Romney/Ryan & the republicans BIG PROBLEM!
Just look at their voting records, at EVERY chance they voted to restrict womens' rights, they didn't vote for fair pay for equal work, they didn't vote to protect women from violence, etc....
Todd Akin and Paul Ryan Are More Alike Than You Think
By Margaret CarlsonAug 20, 2012 7:00 PM ET
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Escalating Rejections
“First of all,” he said, from “what I understand from doctors,” pregnancy as a result of rape is “really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” He went on to say that if “maybe” -- note the maybe -- the pregnancy survived, “there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”
The Romney-Ryan campaign has come out with escalating rejections of Akin’s remarks. Yet Ryan and Akin are in the mainstream of the prevailing House Republican view on abortion.
Not only did Akin and Ryan co-sponsor legislation redefining rape, Ryan ran for Congress as a strong pro-lifer and has a 100 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee. “This includes support for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” the committee notes. Last year Ryan and Akin were co-sponsors of the Sanctity of Human Life Act, also known as “personhood” legislation, which would give a fertilized egg the same rights as a human being and would outlaw some forms of birth control.
There’s only so much Republicans can do to cast Akin out of the party. He’s not a local gadfly who happened to win the party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, like Christine “I Am Not a Witch” O’Donnell in Delaware or Sharron “Beware of Shariah Law in America” Angle in Nevada. Akin is a six-term member of the House in good standing who defeated two other Republicans by a comfortable margin this month.
What Akin apparently fails to understand is this: Just because colleagues like Ryan share his views, that doesn’t mean he can talk about them when there’s a presidential race going on -- especially a race in which his party’s candidate is fudging his views on the subject in hopes of attracting moderates.
Although slow to recognize he shouldn’t have blurted out his thinking, Akin had gotten religion (another subject that’s off limits) by the time he spoke with Mike Huckabee on his radio show Monday. Akin didn’t elaborate on the medical data about the frequency of pregnancies ending spontaneously in cases of rape, but he did say that “legitimate” was the wrong word to use. “I was talking about forcible rape,” he said. Legitimate “was absolutely the wrong word.”
much more:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-20/todd-akin-and-paul-ryan-are-more-alike-than-you-think.html
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