Another asshole steps in it...
Pa. Senate hopeful steps into rape controversy
By MIKE ZAPLER |
8/27/12 4:51 PM EDT
A week after the Todd Akin "legitimate rape" controversy erupted, some Republicans are still struggling to articulate their no-exceptions stand against abortion.
On Monday, Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Tom Smith compared a family member's out-of-wedlock birth to a woman who follows through with a pregnancy resulting from rape.
Smith already is a huge underdog in his race against Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) — a Philadelphia Inquirer poll out Monday had Casey up 19 points — so this may well seal Casey's reelection.
The Inquirer has the story:
Asked about his stance on abortion, Smith said he opposes it, with no exceptions. He then seemed to compare a woman's decision to have a child outside of marriage to having one from rape.
He later backtracked, explaining that the decision wasn't exactly the same, but that there were similarities in that "a life is a life, and it needs to be protected."
Smith waded into the territory when asked how he would tell a daughter or granddaughter to keep a child of rape against her will.
The Republican said: "I lived something similar to that with my own family, and she chose life, and I commend her for that. ... Don't get me wrong, it wasn't rape."
Asked to describe what, in that situation, was similar to having a baby from rape, he said: "Having a baby out of wedlock."
When asked whether that was similar to rape, Smith said: " No, no, no, but well put yourself in a father's position. Yes, I mean it is similar."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/08/pa-senate-hopeful-steps-into-rape-controversy-133383.html?hp=r3
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