{"id":7245,"date":"2012-08-20T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:40:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:40:33","slug":"the-republican-party-and-gods-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7245","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Party and God’s abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently the GOP’s US Senate candidate for Missouri, Congressman Todd Akin, has explained that women’s bodies somehow expel pregnancies<\/a> caused by real honest to john rapes. This must mean that God is the GOP’s abortionist.<\/p>\n

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in a clip posted to YouTube by the Democratic super PAC American Bridge. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Far be it from me to say that Mr. Akin is a dimwit although since he now claims to have misspoken I can’t help but wonder if he is a liar. <\/p>\n

“In reviewing my off-the-cuff remarks, it’s clear that I misspoke in this interview and it does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped and abused every year,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is Congressman Akin’s fellow Republicans in Congress who lead me to his question honesty since they are working very hard to clarify what constitutes a legitimate rape.<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This has left me to wonder what a legitimate rape is and whether an incident I recall from my college days would pass Republican muster.<\/p>\n

I had an athletic acquaintance who was six-foot-eight. He came back from a date late one night and, pleased with himself, told a few of us about the girl he had taken for a drive along the dark country roads of Blue Earth County. He stopped the car beside a farm field and told his date to submit to him or find her own way home in the dark on foot. She submitted for the ride back into town. <\/p>\n

I wonder if God was called on to perform an abortion later that night or if God decided that the girl didn’t put up enough of a fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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