It wasn’t just Todd Akin that was treated with contempt by the thinly veiled attack on Todd Akin. It was all the people who have faithfully knocked doors, made calls, and made sacrificial contributions to elect Republicans because we thought we were welcome in the party. – Mike Huckabee
ANTI-WOMEN CONTROL freaks evidently don’t understand why females might prefer Pres. Obama to the tune of double digits as it stands now, including aiding the Democrats in fundraising. Considering extremists in the Todd Akin wing think exploiting women to push a religious agenda through policy is their duty, it’s not hard to understand. The obsession also managed to get Akin ostracized from Planet Republican when he dared to speak out loud what Mitt Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan believes, which has been codified in the Republican Party convention platform, thanks to people like Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, but now has been seconded and then some by Mike Huckabee. It makes you wonder how Mitt Romney is going to handle his Todd Akin wing, which includes his own vice president, while also trying to broaden his outreach so he can win. When you’ve got Mike Huckabee disagreeing with Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, while Mitt Romney attempts to duck the forced birth GOP platform, which his running mate Paul Ryan is “proud” to champion, represented by legislation he’s co-sponsored in the House with Todd Akin, you’ve got the makings of a political uncivil war before a ballot’s been cast.
The “LifeNews – Sacrifice Women” contingent had this to say about Sandra Fluke, who will be speaking at the Democratic convention and is fundraising for Pres. Obama:
Pro-abortion activist Sandra Fluke is apparently on the Obama payroll now, as the president’s re-election campaign has called on her to en a fundraising email exploiting the controversy over Todd Akin’s abortion-rape comments to raise money.
People over at “LifeNews – Sacrifice Women” also believe Todd Akin’s language on rape is simply a “dustup.” It’s hard to comprehend how so-called religious people could be so flippant about violence against women and the brutality of such an act as rape. These people also believe a girl who’s a victim of incest should be forced by law to carry the unborn egg to term. That Mitt Romney won’t stand strongly against this and demand it out of the platform is a morally spineless act, which is made worse because the Republican Party is standing by it, which has been the case for over a decade. But now the Republicans who have insisted on this extreme rhetoric are revealed through Todd Akin speaking out loud what before has only been written down and forgotten after every convention. It illustrates the extreme and unbounded cruelty of the Romney-Ryan ticket, which can also be seen in their budget that gives the wealthy a tax break and sticks the rest of us with the bill.
Likewise, the people over at “LifeNews – Sacrifice Women” have lost the larger picture through their own obsessions with controlling women’s bodies through our wombs. Our. Wombs.
Ms. Fluke had the courage to speak out for modern women, because she and 98% of other women, including Catholics and other religious females, believe that a woman’s body is not for anyone else to control, no matter who they are.
Sandra Fluke earned a speaking slot at the Democatic convention for her bravery in taking on the male religious establishment. She spoke out for people who can’t or won’t to make certain women have the freedom of self-determination just like any man, without religious interference. She’s helping raise money to bolster Pres. Obama and Democrats because she believes they are the best offense against religious conservatives. People who continue to trash the U.S. Constitution and deny women the privacy that is inherent in the Bill of Rights, which is under threat because these same zealots want to make it possible for government to institute forced pregnancies through law.
The above is my answer to this paragraph from “LifeNews – Sacrifice Women”:
Fluke gained national attention when she argued that the federal government should force Catholic organizations and others to pay for abortion-causing drugs and contraception against their religious beliefs. Fluke is now warming up for her primetime speaking slot at the Democratic convention in early September by sending out the fundraising email and referencing Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape.”
I’ve always had respect for people against abortion rights, but they’ve never reciprocated. People in the Todd Akin wing of the Republican Party also believe they have the right to criminalize emergency procedures for women.
No one and I mean no one, certainly not government, whether state or federal, gets to force a woman to put an unborn egg over her own life.
There should always be exceptions for rape and incest, and contraception should not only be free, but so should Plan B, with abortion a legal procedure to which women must have access, regardless of their station in society. That Pres. Obama chose politics over science, scuttling the wide availability of Plan B to placate religious conservatives, putting women’s lives second, is one of the most craven and cowardly things he’s done while in office.
It proves just how controlling and overreaching our establishment political system remains in this second decade of the 21st century.
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Do the pro-life people in this country ever think about what they are wearing, listening too, making dinner with, giving their jobs to, watching television with or surfing the web with; washing their clothes with or mowing their lawn with. They are doing these things with products made by the greatest abortionist in the world; China. Every hated abortion procedure they rail about here is done there on a daily basis; yet they buy there products and support the murder of the unborn without flinching. This same hypocrisy can be seen in their utter contempt for all the dying, diseased, mal-nurished, starving and sexually abused BORN children in the world today. These same people don’t want to feed poor women, provide medical care to poor women or their sick and hungry children, but they want these women to have all the babies god gives them; and that is what this is all about. Religious fanatics shoving their beliefs down everybody’s throats. We all know that all the ” church ladies ” and church men have always been hypocrites. The life is sacred but what happens to the life is not. It is easy to see why they have no sympathy for the female victim; she’s already born, you can throw her away; with the rest of the trash.
fangio you go witcher bad self!
The big difference is NONE of those Chinese abortions are being done on good lil white, UBERChristian fetuses.
And as far as these sorry excuses for humanity know due to the fact they only listen to anything they get from the likes of fake not news, limpwithnoballs and the rest most of those starving, abused children are white either. Hell, good ol UBERChristian Pat Robertson even went so far as to say…don’t adopt children who have been victems of sexual abus because they’ll grow up “weird”….how Christ like.
Ms, marsh said “I’ve always had respect for people against abortion rights, but they’ve never reciprocated. People in the Todd Akin wing of the Republican Party also believe they have the right to criminalize emergency procedures for women.”
Well I NEVER have.I think about the women(they were only girls at the time…never got to grow up to be women) who DIED from botched illegal abortions and the fact that they DIED because someone tried to FORCE them to live by their superstition based insanity and it is everything I can do not to spit on or assault every religious whack job I see trying to block access to a planned parenthood clinic when some frightened young woman is seeking reproductive health care.
I struggle with giving them respect every time I write about this subject. I know compassionate abortion rights opponents. I’ve spoken with them. I laid out fully in my book the bottom line, which you wouldn’t appreciate secularh, because you’re so dogmatically against respecting faith, even if you disagree with it.
The chapter in my book “Is Freedom Just for Men?” says it all and I believe I’m on the moral and ethical high ground on this subject whenever I write about it, because I’ve take the time to drill all the way down into the faith issue on it.
I’ve had an abortion and know the lengths I went to to get it, crossing over 3 state lines, which was after it became LEGAL. I would have done anything to take control over the situation, which shocked me because he & I both utilized protection. What are the odds on that & still getting pregnant? Minisclue.
My determination I assume is met by abortion rights opponents’ own vehemence against it. They’re wrong. They also will never win. A woman who wants to end the development of an unborn egg will NEVER be stopped. She may die trying, as we’ve seen throughout history, but she will not be deterred.
” They’re wrong. They also will never win. A woman who wants to end the development of an unborn egg will NEVER be stopped. She may die trying, as we’ve seen throughout history, but she will not be deterred.”
And she would die because of someone ELSE’S superstitious “faith” being forced on her. That was used to deny her her RIGHTS.
If being opposed to someone denying anyone their rights based on denier’s superstition based world view is being “dogmatic” it is a badge I wear proudly.
First of all, I try not to buy stuff made in china.
Second of all, you do make some really good points, Fangio. However, I for one, cannot condone Late Term abortions, unless the mother’s life is at stake. If they do it early enough, I’m ok with it. I know a lot of conservatives feel this way, so, for you all to think that the whole Republican party is against abortion, well, then, you’re just plain wrong and making stuff up.
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I agree with fangio completely. And I submit that the Akin “wing” is way more than just a wing.
It is the RepublAKIN Party now….
…and everybody else in it is “the wing” and a very tiny wing at that.
Agree 1000% ladywalker.
You’re wrong.
I guess you haven’t read the GOP platform then. Maybe not everybody in the party thinks this way but the people who are running things sure do agree with Akin.
The war on women is now in full swing. The Republican party is so backwards. I worked in the reproductive/maternal/child health field for more than 30 years in the developing world. We were never allowed to work in China because of their forced abortion policy.
“This same hypocrisy can be seen in their utter contempt for all the dying, diseased, mal-nurished, starving and sexually abused BORN children in the world today. These same people don’t want to feed poor women, provide medical care to poor women or their sick and hungry children, but they want these women to have all the babies god gives them; and that is what this is all about.”
I have looked into the eyes of the sick and hungry children of the world. When I retired I found out these conditions also exist in the good ol’ USA. I know because I’ve been working with the poor and feeding them and trying to get quality health care for mothers-to-be for the past 4 years.I found poor women who weren’t getting the proper medical care, I found people living in their cars; sometimes whole families. This was and is unconscionable. My heart broke for them because I could do so little. I started Grannie Annie’s Kitchen 2 years ago where we provide an honest to goodness breakfast for the poor and homeless. My husband along with my sister and a few other donors have funded the kitchen. It’s based in a church but to many of the members of the church I am bringing “trash into the church” when you’re supposed to “take trash out and put it on the street.” This from so called Christians.
I’m incensed at what we consider good maternal/child health care in this country. I had a four-year old boy come in with an umbilical hernia that a doctor told his mother not to worry about. I took one look at it and took him to one of the docs I use to work with at Weill Medical Center in NY. She got him a pediatric surgeon who operated on him immediately without charge; that’s how bad and ugly it was. The hernia was not only strangulated but had it gone another few days this little boy would have been dead.
I am totally depressed and incensed at what is happening not only to women but to children and the poor. Somehow we have forgotten our humanity in the quest for power and money.
I’m not depressed at all.
Seeing this out in the open and exposed to the light of day is invigorating.
It’s also an antiseptic that will linger through history for this latest generation that has been exposed to the Todd Akin wing of the Republican Party, which used to be the “immoral majority,” represented by Jerry Falwell and Phyllis Schlafly, which got wings during Reagan.
That the Democratic Party has invited NARAL’s Nancy Keenan to speak at the convention is earthshaking stuff.
How their partner Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards handles the spotlight, along with Sandra Fluke and others addressing contraception and women’s self-determination, will send a message that will ring loudly across this land.
Taylor you are so right. As someone who has seen what they have been preaching in the south and trying to tell other people I was looked at like I was an alien. They are now seeing that everything I have been telling them is the truth! Of course, there are people that will still deny all this but they are not the ones that I am concerned with anyway.
I too am glad this is out in the open and exposed but the fact remains we are still having this discussion in the 21st century.
That’s because Democrats have allowed the door to stay open by coddling religious conservatives.
The latest came from the first female speaker of the House, aided and abetted by the first African American president, when Democrats had the majority in Congress. I’ve written about it many, many times, as you know.
Art of political war 101: never give your adversary breathing room, especially on an issue that is backed up through law upheld at the Supreme Court and cemented in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Agree 1000%. It is insanity that this “battle” is going on at all.
Hmm, Didn’t know there was another “wing” of the Republican party.
HA!
Hmm, Didn’t know there was another “wing” of the Republican party
And that lack of knowledge is why liberalism gets so little accomplished. There were ficons long before there were socons in the R party, In fact, anyone who dares to call themselves politically astute would know the socons were all faithful Democrats until Harry Dent co-opted them into Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
As a pragmatic libertarian ficon, I could cut all sorts of deals with either socons or liberals by just being smart enough to parse out to the common ground elements and leave the non-mutual aspects alone.
While my group doesn’t hold sufficient numbers to get things done by straight headcount votes, we tend to have other effective means.
What neither the socons nor the liberals comprehend is both of your groups need me for your ideology to be successfully implemented. My fallback position is I really don;t need either of your groups at all to accomplish much of what I wish to. Division can actually be an asset to my philosophy.
So keep on digging, even though you are the one in the hole.
So-con, fi-con, schmo-com they are as ineffective as the left, since the knuckle draggers in your party rule the roost. And you are all held in check.
As to Aiken, the current party platform reflects the party’s heart and soul. Its a stealth attack on modernity revealing their true colors and the lack of influence of your “cons”. Tough luck if you’re a woman, a minority, gay, or an independent-minded woman. They don’t like you, trust you or want you making your own decisions. They resent government meddling in their own lives but just love meddling in yours, as chaperones, judges and moralizers.
“What neither the socons nor the liberals comprehend is both of your groups need me for your ideology to be successfully implemented. My fallback position is I really don;t need either of your groups at all”
The term delusions of Grandeur comes to mind.
DING! DING!! DING!!!
If there is a more “moderate” and/or “less insane” voice of the Republican party that in fact constitutes the “majority” then where in the heck is it? I am not seeing it AT ALL!!! It certainly is not reflected in the Republican Platform. If it exists, it is either hiding or hibernating or in the same place as GW’s WMDs.
Oh, for crying out loud, there are plenty of libertarians who wouldn’t want to make a pact with the devil, either. “Don’t make a deal with the liberals, or you’ll end up with socialized birth control for welfare queens, and we’ll never outlive the shame.” Let’s face it, real pragmatists are few and far between, and they’re nearly always overruled by the ideologues.
Corporations ARE welfare queens my friends….
They don’t want government controls, unless of course, you’re a woman and have a womb. Then they want to control your womb. They want to control what gender you identify with and if you are gay they are going to make you “straight” one way or the other. As a Christian, not the kind that secular despises, but one who lives her faith by believing in the all encompassing love of God, I can’t find anywhere in the Bible where God has said he will only love certain people.
Jane Austen I have met a few “Christians” who genuinely live their faith. Not many. But a few. And while I completely disagree with the whole concept of the supernatural etc. etc. etc. when I find someone who follows the teachings of Christ, genuinely follows them I am in awe and have quite a bit of admiration for that person.
I know however, not believe but know that folks are perfectly capable of behaving in compassionate, empathetic, civilly and socially responsible ways without the Hell hammer hanging over their heads or the big invisible friend in the sky…doing it just because it is the right thing to do.
The thing is there are two kinds of Christians. There are the fear based Christians who do everything out of the fear of going to hell and there are the love based Christians who do everything out of love for their neighbor. You need to meet more love based Christians but I completely understand where you can get a bad impression of these fear based Christians because not only are a lot of them downright hateful to people they are a very loud voice for Christianity today.
Jane–agreed. As far as they are concerned, a women’s only worth is as a semen receptacle and a fetus incubator…