The amazing thing is the republicans believe the only outrageous thing akin said was "legitimate"

[still_one]

rape. They do not think the idea of forcing a women to carry in cases of rape, incest, or if the life of the mother is at risk is outrageous.

Anyone women who doesn't realize that the republican party is waging a war on women needs to have her head examined

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Yep, that's what most of their comments are about. Not the ideas that there

are two types of rape nor the nonsense about women's bodies being able to shut out the 'evil rape sperm'.

[still_one]

2. It would be very hard for me to believe that most people endorse that policy. This should be a

complete defeat for the republican party in the elections

[JPZenger]

3. Fortunately most commentators are tieing it to the Republican Platform

The timing was fortunate. The day that Akins makes his "one unfortunate word" semi-apology is the same day the Republican Platform Committee (led by Governor Government-Ordered Forced Vagina Probe McDonnell) releases the Platform to outlaw all abortion. The platform does not include ANY exceptions for rape, incest OR the threat to the health of the mother.



As seen last night on the Rachel Maddow Show

[TwilightGardener]

4. They don't understand basic female plumbing. Grown men, with college degrees

and wives and children, don't understand the process of conception. This is horrifying, and an embarrassment for our country--and yet, Republicans are not perturbed by it. They subscribe to faith-based anatomy and physiology. We're heading back to the fucking Middle Ages. Witch trials can't be far behind.

[Marrah_G]

5. The most outrageous thing he said was that women can't get pregnant from rape

He is on the fucking science committee.

And people wonder why we have so little confidence in congress.

It's also the space committee, does he also think the world is flat?

It's this type of complete fucking ignorance by the people who help to create our laws that just infuriates me.