Republicans alienating women with their cluelessness

Rep. Todd Akin, (R-MO) Senate Candidate from Missouri told a local television station that “legitimate rape” rarely produces pregnancy because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin cited conversations with unnamed doctors for the bizarre claim. 

Tom Smith, a Tea Party-endorsed candidate running against Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania suggested that having a child out of wedlock (from a positive relationship) was analogous to having a child from a rape.

Paul Ryan, (R-WI) Vice presidential candidate, says that he believes that rape is just another “method of conception” and not an excuse to allow abortions.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), co-sponsored a bill with Akin that sought to restrict federal assistance to rape victims unless they suffered what Akin and Ryan called “forcible rape.” 

Clearly these men do not take rape seriously. Their laws would give rapists control over a woman and her body - not just for however long the rape lasts - but potentially for the next 9 months, and the rest of her life. And they have stupid ideas about some rapes being more "legitimate" than others.

 GOP Approves ‘Most Conservative Platform In Modern History’

Including:

• NO ABORTION IN CASES OF RAPE OR INCEST. The proposal for a “human life amendment” passed without a hitch — and without any exceptions for rape or incest. The committee didn’t stop there; they also adopted language that would ban drugs that end pregnancy after conception, which could potentially include Plan B, the “morning after pill.”
• SALUTE TO MANDATORY ULTRASOUNDS. The GOP officially praises states’ “informed consent” laws that force women to undergo unnecessary procedures, require waiting periods and endure other measures meant to discourage them from getting an abortion. One such law receiving a “salute” was crafted by committee head McDonnell, who passed a notorious mandatory ultrasound requirement after he signed an unsuccessful bill to require an even more invasive transvaginal probe ultrasound during an abortion consultation.

Republicans at all levels of government are a problem for women, and everyone who has to live with their policies.