If you know anything about politics, you can easily deduce that this does not bode well for Mitt
Romney, considering his VP choice,
Paul Ryan, cosponsored legislation that tried to redefine rape with this moron
from Missouri and a personhood bill that tried to give a fertilized egg the
same rights as a human being (thereby outlawing many forms of birth control,
blah, blah, blah…read this if you want to know more).
On a side note, I would love to hear Paul Ryan explain to a room full of women the
difference between "rape" and "forcible rape".
But
politically speaking, the only traditionally Democratic voting bloc Romney had
a shot at winning to the Republican side was middle aged to older women. WAS
being the operative word. The more the conversation is about women's rights
(and men trying to take them away), the faster women run away from the GOP. So
as you can see, this is not a good situation for a party that already has quite
a significant "woman problem".
I am
so over the politics of this, though. I don't care how Todd Akin's stupidity affects
Romney's chances of winning the presidency. This ridiculous assertion about
"legitimate rape" goes way beyond the abortion debate. This is
fucking with women…and when you fuck with women, you've fucked with me.
As my sister so eloquently put it, it’s pure idiocy to believe that a woman's body can effectively discriminate between "wanted sperm
and rape sperm". So for all of the ideologues out there lost in the pages of their Bible,
when Mr. Sperm works his way inside of Ms. Egg, the result is a baby (they don’t
even have to be married).
The
doctor pushing this whack-a-doodle theory should lose his license and never be
allowed to practice again. Dr. John Willke, you are the very picture of
quackery. And the Senate candidate who brought this crackpot bullshit to the
public eye should be laughed right out of the spotlight. Todd Akin, you’re
profoundly ignorant and you're a moron. I seriously question your IQ.
Don't
be fooled here. This may superficially be about abortion, but that isn't the
real issue at hand. This is about exerting control over women. It's the same
reason women are put on a stand and asked how many drinks they had or what they
were wearing the night they were raped (because if a woman is wearing anything
less than a burqa, men automatically lose control over where they stick their
penis). This is beyond offensive. It's beyond disgusting. They're telling women
that if you had a few drinks, then you must have wanted it. If you were wearing
something revealing, then you must have wanted it. Now it's if you got
pregnant, then you must have wanted it, bitch.
There
are a lot of people out there who believe this sort of half-assed, half-baked
theory. This wasn’t some political faux pas or some accidental misstatement.
Todd Akin’s words represent the worldview of a lot of people. They won't be
satisfied until they have complete control over women's vaginas and uteruses
and they’ll continue to lie about biological processes they know nothing about in
order to get there.
The idea that women get abortions with the same whimsical attitude that they
would get a venti caramel macchiato is an absolute abomination to any person's
intellect and equating women who use abortion as birth control with the majority
of women who get abortions is the equivalent of calling people like Scott Roeder and other
Christian terrorists a good representation of Christianity.
From Bob McDonnell's forced vaginal probes
to
Todd Akin's idea of "legitimate rape," there are people in high
places who are fighting to make sure women cannot make their own medical
decisions. For the bazillionth time…no matter how much scripture you throw my way, my uterus and what I choose to do with it
is between me and my doctor. It's getting rather boring to have to continually
say this.
I
yearn for the day when these ignorant people no longer have any kind of
platform to spread their disdain for women and I yearn for the day when
Republican voters stop supporting these backward ideologues. Their values are
not conservatism. Their values are the worst form of government intrusion…directly
into the bodies of women.
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