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I am willing to bet that most antiabortion folks also oppose exceptions in the case of rape and incest. If they had it their way, the health of women would be secondary to the health of the fetus. I can see cases like the one in the Dominican Republic happening in the U.S. In DR a teen was denied chemotherapy for her cancer because it would violate the country's abortion ban. She died.U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, who won Missouri's GOP Senate primary earlier this month and will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in November's general election, said Sunday that he misspoke when he claimed "legitimate rape" rarely resulted in pregnancy.
Answering a question about whether or not he thought abortion should be legal in the case of rape, Akin explained his opposition by citing unnamed bodily responses he said prevented pregnancy.
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare," Akin said of rape-induced pregnancy in an interview with KTVI. A clip of the interview was posted online by the liberal super PAC American Bridge.
"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," Akin continued. He did not provide an explanation for what constituted "legitimate rape."
He added: "But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something. You know I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."
In a statement Sunday, Akin wrote that he misspoke in the interview. He maintained his opposition to abortion for victims of rape.
These people do not exist. Not in the hundreds of thousands. Even if they were in the hundreds of thousands, there were 1.4 million abortions in the year 1996. That number has undoubtedly increased.Or she could give him up for adoption to one of the hundreds of thousands of families that want a baby but can't have one...
A collection of cells is not a baby.Instead you would punish an innocent baby
I pity your family. I really do.And to have you know, if it happened to my daughter, it would be horrible.... But I would be there with her throughout the pregnancy, and support her in either giving the baby up or raising it herself.
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Quite a list of assumptions you have there. Placing a child up for adoption does not equal hate, does not guarantee a poor upbringing, and certainly doesn't mean they'll become a criminal. But if you'd prefer to abort Steve Jobs and Marilyn Monroe, by all means.Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:
As for the specific case, somebody has a kid which they hate and put up for adoption. Kid probably moves from home to home and is already likely to be genetically disposed to being a fucking moron he has a shite upbringing and goes and rapes somebody else. WOO well done making the world a better place.
I'll trade you one Steve Jobs for one Adolf Hitler. Even throw in a rookie Osama (pre-1980).Stingray24 wrote:
Quite a list of assumptions you have there. Placing a child up for adoption does not equal hate, does not guarantee a poor upbringing, and certainly doesn't mean they'll become a criminal. But if you'd prefer to abort Steve Jobs and Marilyn Monroe, by all means.Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:
As for the specific case, somebody has a kid which they hate and put up for adoption. Kid probably moves from home to home and is already likely to be genetically disposed to being a fucking moron he has a shite upbringing and goes and rapes somebody else. WOO well done making the world a better place.
and stalin.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
I'll trade you one Steve Jobs for one Adolf Hitler. Even throw in a rookie Osama (pre-1980).Stingray24 wrote:
Quite a list of assumptions you have there. Placing a child up for adoption does not equal hate, does not guarantee a poor upbringing, and certainly doesn't mean they'll become a criminal. But if you'd prefer to abort Steve Jobs and Marilyn Monroe, by all means.Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:
As for the specific case, somebody has a kid which they hate and put up for adoption. Kid probably moves from home to home and is already likely to be genetically disposed to being a fucking moron he has a shite upbringing and goes and rapes somebody else. WOO well done making the world a better place.
quit stalin and pass the law already, the more vaginas we probe the betterCybargs wrote:
and stalin.
Adoption messed them up that bad?KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
I'll trade you one Steve Jobs for one Adolf Hitler. Even throw in a rookie Osama (pre-1980).Stingray24 wrote:
Quite a list of assumptions you have there. Placing a child up for adoption does not equal hate, does not guarantee a poor upbringing, and certainly doesn't mean they'll become a criminal. But if you'd prefer to abort Steve Jobs and Marilyn Monroe, by all means.Cheeky_Ninja06 wrote:
As for the specific case, somebody has a kid which they hate and put up for adoption. Kid probably moves from home to home and is already likely to be genetically disposed to being a fucking moron he has a shite upbringing and goes and rapes somebody else. WOO well done making the world a better place.
What if Hitler had raped someone, should the woman carry it to term?HITNRUNXX wrote:
I also hate the "what if" arguments. What if they were raped? So what? Since when do we purposely punish the children of a criminal? Should we go hunt down every rapist's kid and shoot them in the head? Afterall, they are "genetically disposed to being a fucking moron he has a shite upbringing and goes and rapes somebody else" right?
Hey I know, let's just go around murdering everyone we don't think contributes to society. Then we will have plenty of population space left over. That sounds like a great justification to end a life.Macbeth wrote:
Cool story. You still haven't answered how you are going to find homes for 1.4 million+ unwanted children every year.