This wasn't the first time I heard such idiocy.
Back in 2000, while talking with a few politically minded friends, one of them was an anti-abortion activist named Jason Scott Jones. I asked him something like "why should a woman be forced to keep the pregnancy if she was raped". Then Jason Scott Jones said something like "the woman's trauma would release chemicals that would lead to an early miscarriage".
Obviously, real life doesn't always work that way.
from Renee Devesty, someone with REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE on that issue
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/22/i_got_pregnant_from_rape/
Eight weeks after I was raped, Planned Parenthood gave me the confirmation: I was pregnant. The woman who worked there tried to tell me about my options, but I ran. I threw up in the parking lot. I drove around for hours praying this was all a dream.
Any chance to remotely reclaim who I was disappeared in that moment. My whole worldview was challenged. I’m a Catholic, and I didn’t understand: How could this happen to me? I was innocent. I did nothing wrong. But I was overwhelmed by fear, guilt and shame. Just when I thought I might be able to push the ugliness of this savage act out of my mind, I realized I would never be able to escape. It would not let me go.
I was mentally, emotionally and spiritually broken, and the thought of what had resulted from this vile act took my self-hatred into another dimension. I wanted no memory of that night, would do anything possible to erase it in the hope that it would somehow ease the sick, disgusting feeling I got every time I looked in the mirror. I realized that in order to maintain what little sanity I had left, I had to terminate the pregnancy.
From a conservative Jewish writer Dennis Prager
http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2012/08/21/the_prolife_movement_must_disavow_akin_comment
I wonder if that is not the case with Rep. Akin's comment. If I were at a dinner party with Akin, and he said what he said in his Missouri television interview, as much as I consider the vast majority of abortions in America to be immoral acts, I would have respectfully asked the congressman whether he was aware of the marauding armies throughout history that raped women. Did he assume that very few of them -- like the German women raped by Soviet soldiers at the end of World War II -- got pregnant? Did he not know how many raped slaves gave birth? Was he not aware of the tragedy of the women of Darfur who, after being raped by Sudanese Arab soldiers, are abandoned by their families for getting pregnant out-of-wedlock?
I want to go over the issue of slaves getting raped by their slave masters. When the European slave owners imported African slaves to the Americas, the European slave owners would occassionally rape the female African slaves. Guess what came out of that? A baby that is darker than the European rapist, lighter than the African slave.
This is why so many "black people" in the US and Latin America are LIGHTER SKINNED than your average African. Many of them are descendants of African slaves raped by European slave-owners.
Remember, after slavery, there was Jim Crow laws that banned inter-racial marriage, so nobody with African blood was allowed to marry a pure-blooded European-American. That went on for almost a century. So most of the race-mixing in the South were Europeans raping Africans on plantation.
And for the Sudan situation, in which Arab descendants have been oppressing native Africans, this really gone to an extreme level in the Darfur section of Sudan. Massive killings, house burning and rapes. This was Arab-on-native African rapes going on. And many of the offsprings of such rapes have been stigmatized for having Arabic features.
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So why would Todd Akin and Jason Scott Jones say that rape victims rarely get pregnant.
It's because they are anti-abortion fanatics who are trying to ease their way out of the very powerful arguments of the pro-choice activists who remind us that rape victims DID NOT CHOSE TO HAVE THEIR CHILD and why would we force them to have a child they didn't want to create?
Instead of confronting that issue head-on (or even just promote adoption), they'll act as if true rape victims don't get pregnant.
Then they ease into their earlier scheduled arguments with their stereotypes of "only sluts want abortions"
Debra Saunders explain more here
http://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2012/08/21/todd_akin_when_dumb_talk_is_inevitable
There are two sides within the anti-abortion movement. On one side, stand men and women who care deeply about human life and fear that abortion devalues society by creating a caste of disposable people. On the other side, lurk crabbed adults who think women should be punished for having extramarital sex and that pregnancy is fit punishment that (luck of the draw) spares men and falls instead on women and girls
The group highlighted in blue, I do respect their objections to abortions, even though I am for legalized abortions. At least you can sense that they have a heart! Those are the people who truly care about saving the unborn.
For the group highlighted in red, they have no heart. Notice that they truly don't care about the unborn! Those people are morality fascists who enjoy bullying others! They enjoy bullying women who for doing imperfect things. They're just like the bad kids who laugh at other kids who got busted! (remember when you got busted by the teacher? the ones laughing at you WERE NOT THE Well Behaved Kids, it was the other bad kids who don't care about morality AT ALL, they just cared about laughing at other's misfortune!)
Well, when those same bad kids grow up, they grow up to become those punks who said "you had sex, you deserved to be punished by being forced to have that child". Notice that those punks RARELY EXPRESS TRUE ANGER at the rapists, the deadbeat dads, the spouse abusers. No, they pick on someone being abused by those people!
That's the mentality expressed by Todd Akin. He denies rape victims endure forced pregnancies, so that he can continue to bully women for having abortions.
This mentality of Todd Akin is just like the neo-Nazis who said "the Holocaust isn't real".
While the worst scum of the earth includes genocidal killers, rapists, and other violent psychopaths, the second worst scum are the ones involved in the cover-up. That includes the Holocaust Deniers, and the punks (like Todd Akin) who claim "true rape victims don't get pregnant"
There's very few things more emotionally painful after a traumatizing experience than to be told "it didn't happen to you, you lying!"
That's why Todd Akin is undeserving of respect!
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As for the Democrats, don't spend too much time celebrating the misfortune of Todd Akin!
After all, you ever notice Bill Clinton is silent on the issue.
Because Bill Clinton has several rape accusations against him!
No, I'm NOT talking his consensual affairs with interns that everyone kept talking about back in the late 1990's.
I'm talking about Juanita Broadrick and a few others who claimed Bill Clinton raped them decades before he became president.
from Larry Elder's "Todd Akin Was Never Accused of Rape -- Unlike Bill Clinton"
http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2012/08/23/todd_akin_was_never_accused_of_rape__unlike_bill_clinton
"Rape is rape," said Obama.
President Bill Clinton plans to speak at the Democratic convention in North Carolina. Clinton, some might vaguely recall, was accused of rape by a woman named Juanita Broaddrick. "Dateline NBC" aired her allegations against the then-Arkansas attorney general and gubernatorial candidate.
Here's what Broaddrick alleged: "I first pushed him away. I just told him 'no.' ... He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip. ... And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him 'no.' ... He wouldn't listen to me." To this day, former ABC reporter Sam Donaldson is the only national reporter to ask Clinton about Broaddrick's allegation.
Then there's Kathleen Willey, who on "60 Minutes" made a credible allegation of sexual assault against Clinton. Willey, a Clinton campaign volunteer, says that Clinton, in the Oval Office, took her hand and place it on his aroused genitalia: "He touched my breasts with his hand ... and then he whispered ... 'I've wanted to do this ever since I laid eyes on you.' ... He took my hand, and he put it ... on his genitals." Willey said she managed to push him away.
Let's not forget Paula "drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find" Jones. Alleging that then-Gov. Clinton propositioned her and exposed himself in a Little Rock, Ark., hotel room, Jones sued him for sexual harassment. Jones alleged that a state trooper escorted her to a room at the Excelsior Hotel to meet Clinton. Clinton dropped his pants and, according to Jones, asked her to "kiss it." Clinton later paid Jones $850,000 to settle the sexual harassment lawsuit that Clinton long claimed lacked merit.
More allegations against Bill Clinton
http://albertpeia.com/oxfordassault.htm
warning: there are some graphic details among the allegations
Eileen Wellstone, 19-year-old English woman who said Clinton sexually assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford where the future President was a student in 1969. A retired State Department employee, who asked not to be identified, confirmed that he spoke with the family of the girl and filed a report with his superiors. Clinton admitted having sex with the girl, but claimed it was consensual. The victim's family declined to pursue the case;
In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, a law student at the college. No charges were filed, but retired campus policemen contacted by Capitol Hill Blue confirmed the incident. The woman, tracked down by Capitol Hill Blue last week, confirmed the incident, but declined to discuss it further and would not give permission to use her name;
In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law school instructor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse. She complained to her faculty advisor who confronted Clinton, but Clinton claimed the student ''came on'' to him. The student left the school shortly after the incident. Reached at her home in Texas, the former student confirmed the incident, but declined to go on the record with her account. Several former students at the University have confirmed the incident in confidential interviews and said there were other reports of Clinton attempting to force himself on female students;
Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton's gubernatorial campaign, said he raped her in 1978. Mrs. Broaddrick suffered a bruised and torn lip, which she said she suffered when Clinton bit her during the rape;
From 1978-1980, during Clinton's first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor were aware of at least seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually. One retired state trooper said in an interview that the common joke among those assigned to protect Clinton was "who's next?". One former state trooper said other troopers would often escort women to the governor's hotel room after political events, often more than one an evening;
Carolyn Moffet, a legal secretary in Little Rock in 1979, said she met then-governor Clinton at a political fundraiser and shortly thereafter received an invitation to meet the governor in his hotel room. "I was escorted there by a state trooper. When I went in, he was sitting on a couch, wearing only an undershirt. He pointed at his penis and told me to suck it. I told him I didn't even do that for my boyfriend and he got mad, grabbed my head and shoved it into his lap. I pulled away from him and ran out of the room."
Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have sex with him shortly after she won her state crown. Last year, Ward, who is now married with the last name of Gracen (from her first marriage), told an interviewer she did have sex with Clinton but said it was consensual. Close friends of Ward, however, say she still maintains privately that Clinton forced himself on her.
By the time such allegations came out, the US public were already tired of hearing about Bill Clinton's consensual affairs with Monica Lewinsky, Geniffer Flowers and other women.
I know I was tired of hearing about it back then. After all, the stuff with Lewinsky was consensual, none of my business.
But then, I did saw the Juanita Broadrick's allegations against Bill Clinton in one of the tabloids. Then I saw more of those allegations online.
Of course, the "statute of limitations" means that it's too late to press charges.
It is highly possible that Clinton got away with it, knowing that those women would be too scared of being publicly ridiculed by his supporters! And that by the time those women could no longer hold it in, it's too late for them to press charges.
Bill Clinton has stayed silent about those accussations.
While he does have the "right to remain silent", that silence sounds like a cover-up!
That's why Bill Clinton is saying nothing about Todd Akin's ridiculous words. Becuase if he did, then Fox News and other like-minded media outlets would feast on Bill Clinton, bringing up more allegations against Bill Clinton!
Remember, some of the currently popular right-wing pundits like Michelle Maglalang Malkin, Glenn Beck, and the like were unknown during Clinton's presidency! Bill Clinton was lucky that was the case, since those 2 pundits are very viscious and would pounce on Clinton's rape allegations when the timing was right.
That's why Bill Clinton is silent on the rape issue!
It's time to Bill Clinton to just tell the truth about what happened, and at least admit he made some serious mistakes.
After all, even former gang leaders who publicly and sincerely regretted their actions have gotten respect from the mainstream society that they once terrified!
