As Someone Born After Rape, I Say Todd Akin Shouldn’t Step Aside
‘Tis the season to be wearing tread marks. Congressman Todd Akins has crawled out from under the bus, brushed himself off and is standing firm.
A few ill-chosen words expressing a more-common-than-acknowledged misunderstanding of a woman’s biological response to rape have caused him and those harmed by such a violent act, without pause, to be thrown under the bus.
And,
quite frankly, I’m glad such a pro-family, pro-life stalwart, despite a
few bumps and lots of scrapes, is not quitting under pressure from
hypocritical pro-abortion radicals and spineless Republicans.
Feigned outrage has a familiar sound: indignation, rhetorical distancing and repudiation. It’s come from nearly every corner. But where was this righteous indignation when Joe Biden lied in Flint, Michigan, using rape as a fear appeal, claiming it would increase if the American Jobs Act were not passed?
What about Letterman joking about a NYC visit by Palin and her 14 year old daughter ending in the statutory rape of Willow by MLB celebrity Alex Rodriguez? Where was the condemnation of Whoopi Goldberg who, on The View, defended film director Roman Polanski’s 1977 drugging and rape of a 13 year old as not “rape rape”?
ESPN’s “Gridlock” radio show hosts went unscathed as they laughed along with convicted rapist Mike Tyson’s racist, violent and misogynistic “Wombshifter” interview where he joked about Palin being hypothetically raped by Dennis Rodman (and other black men), “pushing her guts up in the back of her head.”
Or perhaps, it’s just funny when liberal comedians joke about rape: Rainn Wilson (Dwight from NBC’s “The Office”), Sarah Silverman (who also recently joked about getting a “quickie aborsh”, a real knee-slapper), or most recently Daniel Tosh. Last month, Tosh began telling rape jokes to a not-so-thrilled crowd.
He responded to a female heckler telling her how funny it would be if “she were raped by 5 guys right now.” There’s just something so hilarious about rape that these celebrities invoked no outrage from the “War on Women” crowd.
Or perhaps, Politico, the online news source that (laughingly) claims
to bring balance to political news didn’t infuriate the same anti-Akin
mob by inexplicably posting Playboy’s “Top 10 Conservative Women We Hate to Love”
(warning: extremely graphic and vulgar screenshot of repulsive
article). They didn’t fire former CNN/Washington Post/Politico Columnist
Anne Schroeder Mullins for using Politico in a repugnant attack against
conservative women with the porn giant’s rape fantasy. She left a year
later to start a PR firm. There’s just so much irony in this
left-leaning news outlet’s present article entitled, “Akin’s Comments ‘Positively Medieval’?”.
As one born as a result of rape, I feel those who demanded that Congressman Akin step down allow the pro-abortion narrative to remain…that those born of rape aren’t deserving of life and that it’s somehow compassionate to push a woman, so horribly violated, toward abortion.
Despite the media’s predictable liberal advocacy of abortion (in all cases), what’s missing is the intriguing real outcome of the horrific act of rape and pregnancy that may result. Why do 50% of women who’ve been so violated choose to carry to term? Why do nearly 6% place their child (yes, not the “rapists’ child”) for adoption? Why do many choose to parent?
This
is something worth better understanding from those who’ve experienced
this trauma. As always, mainstream media treats people groups as
monolithic without ever bothering to discover what people actually
believe or do. They instinctively and gleefully paint pro-life support
of children born of rape as “extreme” thereby attempting to silence any
discussion.
WANT TO DEFEAT OBAMA?
In our fast food, instantaneous, microwaved-solution prone society, it’s a promoted “given” that abortion is the only response to rape. But statistics and real life show that it isn’t, and many victims’ testimonies explain why it’s not. Abortion is like a second rape. The woman is violated, part of her dies (emotionally, physically, spiritually), human life is unjustly harmed, and she’s abandoned by the one inflicting the pain.
I’m not here to demand “no exceptions” laws. Legislation, as vitally needed to protect all human life, doesn’t speak to the heart. I hope my personal story simply shows that there is redemption beyond the pain, anger and confusion of the immediate moment. After years of speaking to hundreds of thousands across the country, I’ve heard many heart-wrenching personal stories of rape from actual victims. Some chose abortion, some expressed tearful regret, others chose adoption and some chose to parent. I was surprised, myself, that many felt that their child brought them healing.
This Akin controversy is less about some poorly chosen words in an expression for support for both mother and child and more about the inexcusable, yet exalted, pro-abortion position that “abortion rights” cannot be threatened. So, while liberals continually use the less than 1% (rape and incest) to justify the other 99%, some are too eager to allow the left to define while the GOP (in this case, the Grand Ole Placaters) reveals it often has no spine.
LifeNews Note: Ryan Bomberger is a LifeNews blogger and the president of the Radiance Foundation. His opinions are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of LifeNews.
Oh there ya go.... finally someone who pulls back the veil of deception that people hide behind.
I like this, because it speaks reality.
Quoting Adam_JakesMomma:That's exactly the crux of the pro-life position, we do not consider a child 2 weeks before exiting the womb less of a child than a one day old infant. Likewise, we don't consider a 14 week old fetus any less of a child. They are human beings, human juveniles (AKA children) that are in a different stage of development than a 4 year old or a 6 month old or a 10 year old.
Oh, I am a guardian ad litem so I do my fair share of helping out abused and neglected children. It's my passion for advocating for chldren and actively organizing community events for child abuse awareness that has made me become pro-life after being pro-choice for many years.
YES, YES AND YES. !!!!
Quoting Adam_JakesMomma:How dare a woman who knows what it was like to be helpless, defenseless, and to have her life entirely in someone else's hand turn around and exercise the exact same despotism on that innocent, unborn child.
No matter what you "choose" to do, you still give birth to that child. So if you become pregnant and you don't wanna be you will be forced to give birth. It's kind of like poop, it has to come out--abortions don't make the fetus magically disappear. Unfortunately, in the U.S. and so many other places you can *choose* whether you want to give birth to a living or dead baby. Totally barbaric. Atila the Hun should be on pro-choice ads...
If people are stupid enough to stick hangers up them or throw themselves down stairs and think that's going to solve their problems, I don't find myself the least bit sympathetic. I also don't feel sorry for people who kills themselves. Selfishness is generally something that I don't consider pity-worthy.
Quoting FromAtoZ:
I don't believe, for a second, that any one believes that some one born as the result of a rape is less deserving of life.
That is being thrown around in an attempt to deflect from what was said, or what was meant.
No woman should ever be forced to give birth to a child that is a result of rape, or the result of consensual sex, for that matter.
The choice should be the individuals and no one else's, regardless of their beliefs or their opinions.
What one woman feels, the one who would give birth, is not what every woman would feel. Just as if one decides to abort, another woman will not.
How dare people feel they should even consider making a choice for another under such circumstances.
The choice a woman makes, whether right or wrong in the eyes of others, should be hers to make.
I would much rather a woman have the choice of a safe abortion, if abortion is her choice, rather than seeking one through other means that could potentially bring her grave harm.
I realize many here consider any woman who may make that choice less than human and does not care what would happen to her, as long as she births that child. That is on you.
Once that child is here you all tend to turn your back on the child, still demanding the woman should do as you feel she should and condemning her for getting pregnant in the first place, no matter how the pregnancy came about.
So incredibly telling and hypocritical.
Good for this guy that his life was great, but I've known two children of rape who had horrible lives because their mothers were forced to have the child conceived from that act of violence. The point is, there should be a CHOICE for the rape victim, not an inevitability.
Quoting 12hellokitty:
Quoting MsDenuninani:
Quoting 12hellokitty:
and as Christians we are called to make Sacrifices....
A child is not a sarifice. A child is a awesome responsibility, one that you should take on willingly.
P.S. And even Christians choose what sacrifices they are willing to make.
I didn't say a child is a sacrifice.
My bad. I thought you implied it. Can you clarify what you were trying to say?
Quoting cammibear:
My comments have nothing to do with the government and everything to do with the depravity of man. Women have a right to choose. Many just don't having any discernment of right and wrong. And some have no conscience to care one way or the other.
Quoting MsDenuninani:
Quoting cammibear:
Has nothing to do with the government. It has to do with right and wrong and the blurred lines between the two.
Quoting LucyMom08:
I value human life, I just happen to also equally value autonomy...why do you think the government should be able to tell you what to do with your own body?
Quoting cammibear:
I thought this was an excellent article. I think the negative comments are a result of the devaluing of human life that's all too promoted along with selfishness and irresponsibility with the women's right to choose crowd.
It does have something to do with the government when it is the government that is forcing me to be an incubation pod for a "blessing."
Fair enough. I can live with your judgment (or God's) on abortion. It's the criminal code I want to keep out of it, so we're good.
Why do 50% of women who’ve
been so violated choose to carry to term?
This is the point. Right here. You see it?
They have a choice. That's all 'we' want. I would never presume to 'push' any woman, of any age, background, or upbringing towards any decision of this magnitude. But all three of the options - adoption, abortion, or parenting - should be available to any woman.
No one makes you get an abortion. You choose one. No law is passed that says a woman must receive an abortion after being raped. They have the Choice to abort.
And abortion isn't really the point of the conversation anyway. Not how many choose to carry or how many choose to terminate.
This is about the FACT that men like him and many women believe that raped women don't get pregnant. If they do get pregnant, they must have enjoyed being raped so they have no right to act like they hadn't wanted it all along. Of course she wanted it and liked it, she got pregnant.
That thought is repugnant. That is the cause of all of the fuss.
The "great" man who said it did not misspeak nor did his message get lost. His message was simple: there is no need to allow a rape exemption in any abortion laws because if a woman was really raped, she couldn't be pregnant in the first place. The baby in her belly is the only proof needed to prove she was a teasing whore who later regretted sex and called it rape after the fact. That is what he is saying and it had nothing to do with this op and his raped mother and his lack of understanding of humanity if people dare to feel differently about anything that he does.
And, just to point it out, I don't remember all of those liberal love to laugh about rape stories so I can't say how true his statements are but the stories I do remember, the people making the rape jokes did get raked over the coals by everyone. Some were rather recent and there was a huge fracas over the Tosh comments.
Isn't that true of anyone? The point is that we don't know. We have no way of knowing if we are denying the world of an Einstein or a Ted Bundy.
Quoting The_Green_Farie:
Quoting jesse123456:See. This is what makes me pro-life. Which one of the babies that are born will cure cancer or bring peace or be the next Shakespeare? There is always that hope in a child.
On the other side of the coin that child born from rape can turn into the next Philip Gorido (he kidnappd & raped a child in the name of god), Klan member, rapist/pedophile, murderer.
Who would you save?
- candlegal
on Aug. 22, 2012 at 1:39 PM