Legitimately Raped and Disregarded

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In 2012, MEN who continuously demonstrate an embarrassingly limited understanding of how a woman's reproductive system works, have power to control the health decisions they make concerning their bodies.

And these MEN's love and respect for the rights of a small collection of cells over a woman's life, excuses this.  Some support for this reared its misogyny-stinking head from out the mud just at the start of this week:

http://on.aol.com/video/todd-akin--legitimate-rape-victims-rarely-get-pregnant-517451566

     

If this isn’t something that has been on your radar, it’s been a huge deal the last couple days, culminating in everyone thinking that Akin, the boy in question, was going to at the behest of his fellow Republicans, drop out of the Senatorial race in Missouri. He had until 6:00 pm yesterday to do that and he didn’t.

     

It was pretty clear that he wasn’t from the start. Here is a statement his campaign made not too long after his disastrous moment of infame:

http://www.akin.org/updates/akin-statement-jaco-report-interview

He says he misspoke. He doesn't apologize. He doesn't admit to being astoundingly uninformed on an issue he pretends to know enough about to want to help change the world according to his views. He doesn’t say he’s going to take this as a humbling moment and rethink the issue entirely, considering his views on it were built upon a false contention. He says people who support abortion won't vote for him. He says the democrats want to distract from the real issues about the economy. He says he's not cool with rape. All of that’s great to hear.

Doesn’t change how wonderful an example it is of conservatism’s views on and treatment of the rights of women and girls. Science, reason, civil rights, none of that can budge the simple facts carved in the cholesterol plugged, Chick-Fil-A sauce pumping, red white and blue heart of an agent of tradition.

 

Pictured: Thicker than water, but not nearly as much as your average Republican

Man is Man, and woman is woman. Equality between the sexes hasn’t been fighting too many winning battles against that until recently in the history of relations between men and women. Washing the writing off the wall and out of the hearts of people after so long of that being The Way Things Were, and getting out the message that Women don’t deserve to be treated by men as lesser beings is fucking uphill. But when was the writing in their hearts carved deepest, to scar over in clear font for all to see?

Maybe it can be traced back to the Victorian era. Maybe Catholicism and other old religion’s course to spread their numbers. Maybe even further back. Maybe for some it’s different than all that. Maybe it’s legit belief that all abortion is killing a baby, while the morning after pill, contraceptives and medical abortions are the prevention of the potential of life in interest of preserving the woman’s life and her right to live it as she sees fit. …And the potential of a life is everywhere; a bunch of teachers deciding not to have crazy unprotected sex in the teacher’s lounge is preventing the potential of life. The rights of actual people are in danger every day of oppression, people’s lives are in danger every day, getting concerned for the something that could potentially result in a life, a clump of cells or otherwise, is insane.

I’ve always had trouble in the understanding of uniformly why they believe this. I’m incredibly well versed in what they say over and over again in support of their argument, I have ideas on what lies deeper, and I can trace similar behavior into history.

But none of that changes that uninformed, economically well-off MEN are making life-changing decisions for people they couldn’t even begin to understand the plight of. Nor does it change any of the content they expel.

They aren’t informed, they can’t debate it without flawed arguments or not addressing legitimate arguments at all, and they are perfectly happy restricting important rights that could massively negatively impact women to the point of killing them. This punishment is all for being raped or simply making a mistake, maybe for being misinformed by conservative, anti-scientific methods in teaching sexual education to American students. An entire year of their lives, the product of their trauma and one half of the rapist literally growing inside of them for almost a year. To preserve the rights of people who don’t exist.

To be fair. I don’t know a lot of things about this issue either. I don’t know when exactly the medical field decides an abortion would be excessive and unnecessary. I don’t even know how exactly we could go about legislating something this insanely complicated, while restricting the least amount of rights as humanly possible.

But what I do know, is that this:

-as undeniably scientifically beautiful as it is, being given precedence over a person that actually exists, seen not just as shit that could possibly result in a person, is dangerously deranged. It hinders real debate on the many intricacies in the abortion debate that haven’t been addressed in mainstream politics, and need to be in order to be there for victims of an unforgivable crime, and make our country a greater place to live in spite of horror.

These particular horrors, rapists, the lowest of all lows, deserving of castration… At least most of them don’t commit their crimes in the light of day, on television, in the view of the community that protects it every day. Modern conservatism’s approach to the issue is a crime. Bills that ban all abortions, even if a woman is raped. Defending themselves with lies, like ‘no children have incestuous children as the result of sexual abuse’, ‘no women get pregnant if they’re raped’, ‘a rape baby is a gift from god’, or ‘women who say they were raped must be lying; because it’s impossible for them to get pregnant, so they must have wanted it.’

(All of these have been said by republicans in the last couple days: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/21/missouri-republican-official-god-chose-to-bless-women-with-pregnancies-from-rape/)

Now they’re all fighting over how they can define rape, because people aren’t buying their recent plate of condescending bullshit (Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s and Todd Akin’s unconstitutional Sanctity of Human Life Act does this.)

(Full bill here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.212:)

      Republicans have not made enough effort to distance themselves from these radical views. They’ve asked Akin to drop out, but they haven’t changed the lockstep walk they want to kick him out of.

      They’ve come out and said some things that are massively inconsistent with their pasts, without acknowledging it in order to make up for this.

      Mitt Romney said that he’d sign a bill that outlawed ALL abortion were he president. Paul Ryan spoke volumes in his bill:

(1) the Congress declares that–
(A) the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being, and is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person; and
(B) the life of each human being begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent, irrespective of sex, health, function or disability, defect, stage of biological development, or condition of dependency, at which time every human being shall have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood; and
(2) 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 again, unconstitutional. Congress does not have the power to overrule Roe v. Wade by a statute without a constitutional amendment.

They can lie all they want, asskissing opportunist Romney does it like it's his job...  I guess it is... but the truth that they’ve shown to us is enough to now what’s what. In the butt.

      Any self-respecting human should do everything within their power to keep these boys out of office. Vote against them. Donate against them. They deserve much worse than just that.

Not just these three whores, but you get the point.

I'd be happy if you excused my sloppy return to one a week posts. Summer's over and it's time to get to work.

...I'd be even happier if you didn't read the title of this essay as: "Legitimately Raped and Disregarded By Max Wilson."