We cats weren't going to post again until later today, but we simply had to bump that picture of the woman-hater from Missouri down from the top of the blog. Whew!
But as the GOP disaster known as Todd Akin continues, we had another thought about just how screwy these anti-choicers' thinking is.
Case in point: Certified religious whacko Bryan Fischer has (surprise, surprise) leaped to Akin's defense on the "legitimate rape" question, asserting in no uncertain terms that "he was entirely correct to say that pregnancies in cases of forcible rape are rare."
Aside from the fact that these Republican male lamebrains have suddenly all become practicing OB-GYNs (gee, we missed that), we have a theory about why about five percent of rapes result in pregnancies.
Unfortunately for Akin and his ilk, this is NOT due to "shutting that whole thing down." It's thanks to Margaret Sanger, Emma Goldman, Planned Parenthood, The Guttmacher Institute and thousands of advocates who have been fighting for nearly 100 years now to ensure women the right to control their reproductive destiny and their reproductive health.
The large number of women who use birth control methods that work day in and day out — like the pill or the IUD — has got to be a big factor behind the five percent.
Of course, if Todd Akin and Paul Ryan and all the other Republicans have their way, birth control will cease to be covered by insurance, and Planned Parenthood will be out of business. And forget about Medicaid assistance. So, more women who are raped will conceive.
We're not sure how a Romney-Ryan America would deal with that. But in the meantime, instead of hearing about how women's bodies "shut things down," we'd dearly love it if the knuckle-draggers in the GOP would just shut up.
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There have been marches for everything else in D.C. Please tell me that, before the election, women plan to march on Washington protesting these ignorant men
trying to tell them what to do with their bodies.
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