Legitimate Rape

Warning: possible triggers and explicit language ahead.

Candidate for Senate, Representative Todd Akin (R-Mo) really stepped in it with his comments. If he were a Leftist Democrat, he'd get a pass, even if he was sexually harassing his interns. The underlying problem is that he's a pro-life TEA Party Republican, but the foothold he gave his political opponents was two-fold: 1. He used the phrases "legitimate rape" and later "forcible rape"; and 2. He said it was "rare" for women to get pregnant from rape because of how their bodies react. Here's the actual quote:

"It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare," Akin told KTVI-TV. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child."

As usual, there's much misrepresentation going around about what he said, and almost nobody bothers to do their research. They just tweet and share their little bumper sticker slogans and pretend like they're enlightened.

Did he say no women ever get pregnant from rape? No.

Did he say that most claims of rape are false? No.

Did he say rape is OK? No.

Did he make any excuse for rape? No.





Regardless, his statement wasn't good from a public relations standpoint as the Leftist Democrats have doing everything they can to tell women they are powerless, defenseless, and going to be attacked and forced to be living incubators to birth children against their will who will grow up to look like Michael Moore unless they vote Democrat.

Obviously, some women DO get pregnant from rape. Some of them give birth to the child, some even raise that child. You might know someone who was conceived as a result of rape.

Although women get pregnant without orgasms, I remember reading that female orgasms can aid in conception because of how the cervix behaves. Aren't women a tad less likely to orgasm while being raped? Less likely, however, does not translate to "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down". It was a stupid statement to make.

Rape is one of the "hard cases" when it comes to abortion, meaning many prolifers make an exception for pregnancies resulting from rape. But abortionists and those with abortion-lust try to use rape-initiated pregnancies - which are statistically rare as far as the overall percentage of pregnancies and the overall percentage of rape cases - illogically as an excuse as to why thousands of other daily abortions performed under the blessing of current law must be upheld as something good. The fact is, most abortions are done for convenience; few of them kill a child conceived in rape. If we're being honest, we'll also admit that the child is not to blame for the rape.

One of my core guiding political principles is that "True rights do not obligate others without their consent unless a crime is committed." One of the reasons I include "unless a crime has been committed" is that if a child has a right to life, that right is putting an obligation on a woman without her consent if she was raped. Unless her ovaries or uterus have been removed or she's had a tubal ligation, any woman who consents to sex knows sex can result in pregnancy. Likewise, unless his sperm count is zero, either from a vasectomy or some problem such as watching too much of "The View", a man must know that he risks getting a woman pregnant even if he wears a condom, and that he might have his child sucked into a sink under the protection of the law or he might be facing at least 18 years of child support payments. Consensual sex is a choice, and the choice includes various possible consequences. Rape is not a choice.

That brings me to the "legitimate rape" or "forcible rape" comment, which many feministas were foaming at the mouth about long before Akin opened his. A funny thing, though, it is radical feminists who have made the clarification necessary, and as much as it makes the hair on their legs stand on end, they need to lace up their comfy shoes and walk in the world for which they've worked.

Perhaps this will help explain. One of these things is not like the others. Let's see if you can guess which one:

1) Two nineteen year-olds, a man and a woman who have been on several dates and have had sex on each one per the woman initiation, are making out. They take each others clothes off, engage in much foreplay, and then she tells him she needs him inside of her. They start to have intercourse with him on top. After a few minutes of intercourse, with her making encouraging noises and utterances, she suddenly says, "Stop!" He was starting to pump again when she said stop; he completes the motion and quickly pulls out and ceases.

2) A middle-aged man and woman meet in a hotel bar. The get equally drunk together, go up to her room, and have sex. They fall asleep, wake up the next day and part ways. Once home from her business trip, the woman thinks about that night and regrets it.

3) A man and woman meet in college, start seeing each other regularly, and start having sex regularly, until she starts taking Womyn’s Studies courses and a professor of hers that most people had assumed was Pete Rose tells her that all sex between men and women is rape, and she agrees.

4) A woman is walking in a dimly lit parking structure, trying to find where she parked. A man grabs her, presses a knife to her throat, forces her into his van, and violently forces himself into her.

If you said the last one is not like the others, you obviously haven't spent enough time at a university. The women were raped in all four scenarios, at least according to radical feminists. That is why someone would use the qualifiers "legitimate" or "forcible" before rape; radical feminism has made the qualifiers necessary. When consensual sex is equated with rape, actual rape victims are degraded. But that doesn't stop feminstas, who have a more important agenda, apparently.

The more important agenda is why such a big deal is being made of Akin's stupid statement. The Left is facing the loss of the Presidential Election as well as the Senate and Leftist Democrats are desperate to convince Female, Latino, African, and Homo Americans that they can't possibly live a good life without having a large, Democrat-controlled federal government running their lives, because most heterosexual white men are racist, sexist, homophobes who scheme day and night to literally enslave them.

Most women have enough perspective and critical thinking skills to see what is really going on here. If Akins remains in the race and is elected, it will not cause women to lose any rights whatsoever; he'd just be one of a hundred Senators, and the Senate does not restrict abortion. There are more important issues where real differences can be made with this election.

It is not a war on women if the federal taxpayers don't pay for your late-term partial-birth abortion, or those of women in other countries. It is not a war on women if the federal government doesn't force your employer to pay for your birth control.

Saying that taxpayer-funded elective, uninformed abortion-on-demand up until delivery has to be a federal right because some women get pregnant from rape makes less sense than saying the federal government should supply every woman with a handgun and target practice sessions because some women are raped. Actually, the guns make more sense and would prevent rapes, and we actually have a Constitutional Amendment that supports gun ownership.

Leftist womyn are less likely to directly avail themselves of their Second Amendment rights (the rich ones hire other people to use guns to protect them) and less likely to have strong husbands or dates, and more likely to abuse substances, hang out with violent felons and other people with poor personal boundaries. So… perhaps they do have more of a reason to fixate on rape as an election issue.

In some cases, women do get pregnant from rape. Rape… rape, not sex you later regret… is a terrible thing and rapists should be sent to prison for as long as necessary. And a child is a child regardless of how evil one of his parents has been, and thousands of girls are being slaughtered every day. Isn't murder one of the few things worse than rape?