Todd Akin's Abortion Position Reflects GOP Platform

Whaler17 · Aug 23, 2012

RRRRIIIGHT, that must be why so many Republicans are calling for him to bow out.
Democrats are idiots.

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Todd Akin's Abortion Position Reflects GOP Platform

By Laura Bassett | HuffPost | 08/21/2012 5:17 pm
Excerpts:

In the national maelstrom after the inflammatory statement made Sunday by GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin in Missouri is the reality that there is no policy difference between Akin's comments and the mainstream GOP platform.‬

CNN reported on Monday that the draft of the GOP's official 2012 platform calls for a federal ban on abortion with no exception for rape and incest survivors.

** quote: The platform also demands that the government "not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage," a policy that harkens back to the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act of 2011. The GOP sponsors of that bill, including Akin and current GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), tried to narrow the definition of rape as it relates to abortion; only "forcible rape," the bill originally stated, warrants insurance coverage for abortion. The language was removed before the bill passed.

** Akin's remarks and the ensuing outrage from both parties forced Mitt Romney to rein in his running mate's conservative position on abortion. The Romney campaign announced Sunday night that the Romney/Ryan ticket supports abortion in cases of rape, even though Ryan previously opposed it.

But if the draft of the GOP platform is any indication, the Republican National Committee will not include a rape exception in its platform. "It's a strong pro-life position that doesn't get into granular specifics. We leave those to the states."

Ten GOP-controlled state legislatures, over the past couple of years, have passed bans on abortions after 20 weeks of gestation that do not include an exception for rape victims. Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) recently tried to pass the same ban in the District of Columbia.

Romney and Ryan could be unsuccessful at distancing themselves with Akin, in addition to having sponsored a federal fetal personhood law that would force rape victims to go through with their pregnancies.

Ultimately, Romney and the Republicans' success in the upcoming election could hinge in part on their ability to distance themselves from members like Akin, although Akin's comment only underscores a position many Republicans are trying to codify into law.

UPDATE: 1:48 p.m. - The Republican platform committee approved the draft on Tuesday that calls for a constitutional ban on abortion without exception for rape victims, Politico reports.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/todd-akin-gop-platform-rape_n_1818532.html\
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We have cosponsors Akin and Paul Ryan who both heartily sponsored this amendment to be put into law, now had Akin being told to get out and Romney saying Ryany doesnt mean it...but the draft was approved this afternoon by the reublican committee without the exception for rape and incest.

What is the reasoning behind the republican plan to bring all women back into being brood mares? Are women to be just baby-making work-horses that must endure rape and incest without any recourse in deciding what SHE wants to do with her body?

WTH is it with these sickening, farty, stale old men who think they can decide what is best for me, or my best friend, or my neighbor, or any female in this Democracy?

What grand plan have they in store for the United States that involves every woman indiscriminately dropping babies every year whether their health is damaged by ceaseless birthing or not, or if they have been abused, or raped making no difference...and what do the husbands have to say about this who will have to finance all these children, buying bigger homes, bigger food and clothes bills, larger education expenses.

The republicans who would be responsible for this would be abominations upon this earth, America would no longer be a Democracy and the middle class would be locked into poverty and serfdom.
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