GOP: "Legitimate" rape will not cause pregnancy

OK, we all agree that akin is a fool, and should be shown the door, but the same can be said for so many of the left... beckel, moore, combs, Queen nancy, reid, boxer, lee, (Sorry jackson-lee), biden, most of hollywood... on & on & on.
Why is it ok fo the left to have so many fools and get away with it, but the Right has so few and it's such a big deal?

FredHayek wrote: Great point CPO. 90% of the GOP has come down hard on Akin asking him to drop out and the lefties here are still claiming it is the Republican platform.

Dog called you a liar when one of your thread titles was exagerrated, and now he does the same thing. I guess it is OK if you are a leftie?

Plus we have these threads saying the GOP platform is going to get rid of the mortgage deduction and ban abortions even with rape or incest even though no such language exists.

OK, back to Romney's taxes! lol :woo hoo:

pineinthegrass wrote: Plus we have these threads saying the GOP platform is going to get rid of the mortgage deduction and ban abortions even with rape or incest even though no such language exists.

Earlier this week, CNN obtained portions of the Republican Party's 2012 platform, which included language about the GOP's position on abortion.

The language will not be official until it's ratified by convention delegates next week, but it's unlikely to undergo any changes before then.

Because the abortion plank has become a source of controversy and debate in the presidential race this week, we've posted the full language here for those interested in reading the entire passage.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... nt-page-2/

Republican drafters of their party’s 2012 platform reaffirmed support for a constitutional amendment banning abortion that would allow no exception for terminating pregnancies caused by rape.
Concluding two days of deliberations in Tampa yesterday, the platform committee completed a 60-page draft of political positions and principles that will be submitted for adoption when the Republican National Convention begins Aug. 27 in the Florida city.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-2 ... ction.html

The Republican Party has moved so far to the right that the extreme is now the mainstream. The mean-spirited and intolerant platform represents the face of Republican politics in 2012. And unless he makes changes, it is the current face of the shape-shifting Mitt Romney.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/opini ... sents.html

Fox News: New GOP Platform Calls for Dropping Mortgage Interest Deduction

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/17990174 ... deduction/

The Obama campaign is falsely accusing the Republican Party’s platform of calling for banning abortions even in cases of rape or incest. That’s not true. The 2012 platform is silent on exceptions — leaving that decision up to Congress and the states — just as it was in 2008 and in previous presidential election years.

To make matters worse, the latest falsehood comes from the president’s “Truth Team.” An Aug. 20 posting on the “Truth Team’s” site repeats a bogus claim that Mitt Romney would “ban abortion even in cases of rape or incest,” adding (our emphasis): “He also supports the Republican Party platform, which includes a Human Life Amendment that bans abortion without those exceptions.”

http://factcheck.org/2012/08/another-abortion-falsehood-from-obamas-truth-team/

And so far as the mortgage deduction goes, there is no mention in the GOP platform supporting keeping the deduction, nor eliminating it (as your source mentions right off the bat).

That does not mean the platform supports eliminating the deduction.

Rasmussen MO. Poll McCaskill 48, Akins, 38.

It gets harder and harder to tell, don't it?

Jack Willke, National Right To Life Committee Founder, Perpetuates False Rape Pregnancy Ideas

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The discredited notion that a woman's body can resist conception in a sexual assault has persisted in anti-abortion circles for decades, largely because of the efforts of a Cincinnati obstetrician who is considered a godfather of the movement.

Dr. John C. "Jack" Willke founded the National Right to Life Committee and wrote the influential 1971 "Handbook on Abortion," which has shaped the thinking of generations of anti-abortion activists.

Rep. Todd Akin's comments this week on rape and pregnancy helped upend a Senate race and roiled the Republican Party in a tough election year. But they reflect ideas that the 87-year-old Willke began peddling years ago.

"There's no greater emotional trauma that can be experienced by a woman than an assault rape," Willke wrote in 1999 in the journal Christian Life Resources. "This can radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation and even nurturing of a pregnancy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/2 ... f=politics

Well, here's the source of this particular flavor of bat-sh*t-crazy... It's a shame that Akin isn't the only one drinking the Kool-Aid. But then, facts and science have never been conservatives long-suit.