The pro-rape GOP is at it again.
In a 1988 debate between George Bush and Michal Dukakis, in spite of its being well known that Governor Dukakis was against the death penalty, Bernard Shaw, the moderator, asked the question, “Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?”
Dukakis, neither taking the bait nor throwing out his moral convictions, calmly answered, “No, I don’t, Bernard, and I think you know that I’ve opposed the death penalty during all of my life.”
That was enough to kill his candidacy.
But, in spite of consistently opposing the theory of evolution, in this the GOP has evolved.
According to the present GOP, had his answer included him saying that a child could possibly be produced that would need the father, he might have survived.
A West Virginia lawmaker, Bin Kucaba, stated last week that while rape was horrible, if child could be produced from it, it would be “beautiful”.
“Obviously rape is awful. What is beautiful is the child that could come from this,” he said.
In the recent past the GOP has come up with such statements as (and this is a shot list going back only 5 years):
Clayton Williams, “If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it”.
Chuck Winder, “I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.”
Ken Buck, “A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer’s remorse … It appears to me … you invited him over… the appearance is of consent.”
Rick Santorum, “I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you… rape victims should make the best of a bad situation.”
Missouri’s Rep. Todd Akin, “If it’s legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.”
Texas State Senator Jodie Laubenberg, “In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits where a woman can get cleaned out.”
New Mexico State Rep. Cathrynn Brown, “Tampering with evidence shall include procuring or facilitating an abortion, or compelling or coercing another to obtain an abortion, of a fetus that is the result of criminal sexual penetration or incest with the intent to destroy evidence of the crime.”
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, “I’ve struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”
AFA’s Bryan Fischer, “What Todd Akin is talking about is when you’ve got a real, genuine rape. A case of forcible rape, a case of assault, where a woman has been violated against her will through the use of physical force where it is physically traumatic for her, under those circumstances, the woman’s body — because of the trauma that has been inflicted on her — it may interfere with the normal function processes of her body that lead to conception and pregnancy.”
Missouri Republican central committee member Sharon Barnes, “Abortion is never an option. At that point, if God has chosen to bless this person with a life, you don’t kill it.”
Taking this condition seriously and the researches a new medicine was introduced in the field of pharmacy know as cialis online without prescription . You have the facts you need to determine. soft cialis online If buy cialis canadian a woman, child or pet intakes the medicine, it can lead to serious consequences in them. Ginseng is also known as herbal discount levitra http://amerikabulteni.com/2011/09/08/are-you-ready-for-fashions-night-out/. Paul Ryan, “I’m very proud of my pro-life record, and I’ve always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn’t change the definition of life.”
Wisconsin State Rep. Roger Rivard, “He also told me one thing, ‘If you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape in an awful hurry. Because all of a sudden a young lady gets pregnant and the parents are madder than a wet hen and she’s not going to say, ‘Oh, yeah, I was part of the program.’ All that she has to say or the parents have to say is it was rape because she’s underage. And he just said, ‘Remember, Roger, if you go down that road, some girls,’ he said, ‘they rape so easy.’ What the whole genesis of it was, it was advice to me, telling me, ‘If you’re going to go down that road, you may have consensual sex that night and then the next morning it may be rape.’ So the way he said it was, ‘Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.’
Pennsylvania Rep. Tom Smith, “A life is a life, and it needs protected. Who’s going to protect it? We have to. I mean that’s, I believe life begins at conception. I’m not going to argue about the method of conception. It’s a life, and I’m pro-life. It’s that simple.”
Nevada Senate candidate Sharon Angle, “You know, I’m a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations.
.
Kansas State Rep. Pete De Graaf, “We do need to plan ahead, don’t we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.”
Alaska State Rep. Alan Dick on the rights of fathers and rapist when it comes to abortion, “If I thought that the man’s signature was required… required, in order for a woman to have an abortion, I’d have a little more peace about it…”.
Ken Buck, “A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer’s remorse.
Scott Brown, “Through our conversations, I’ve heard, ‘what if somebody has a sincerely held religious conviction about dispensing the emergency contraception medication? What about their rights? How do we address those… It’s not about the victim.”
Warde Nichols, “When you enter into a marriage, you enter into a contract for all sorts of different things with your spouse. Why should we take it to a Class 2 felony and put a husband away who’s been a good husband for however many years … based off of something that was OK in a marriage up until that point?”
.Clayton William, “Rape is kinda like the weather. If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.”
Bill O’Reilly, “Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She’s walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she’s out of her mind, drunk.”
Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly, “I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That’s what marriage is all about.”
Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, blaming the outrageous number of rapes in the military on hormones, ““The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we’ve got to be very careful how we address it on our side.
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said a pregnancy as a result of rape was a “gift from God.”
Ron Paul said that “If it’s an honest rape, that individual should go immediately to the emergency room, and I would give them a shot of estrogen.”
Paul Ryan had sponsored an anti-abortion bill with Akin that made reference to “legitimate rape” and “forcible rape”.
Ryan also included a section in his Sanctity of Human Life Act, “The Congress affirms that the Congress, each State, the District of Columbia, and all United States territories have the authority to protect the lives of all human beings residing in its respective jurisdictions”, which could actually allow for the rapist to sue his victim if she attempted to get an abortion.
So Rape babies are one of God’s ways of conceiving children, and the rapist can have his victim arrested if she attempts an abortion without his permission without any requirement for him to support the child.
Elections have consequence.
Thanks you guys who didn’t vote.