Hoo boy, Todd Akin sure screwed up. He’s the teabagger Missouri Republican running against Claire McCaskill for Senate. He’s always been a pro-life, anti-abortion kind of guy but his statement yesterday was simply bizarre.
Todd Akin, perhaps the stupidest human being in the United States. We should all laugh at him.
He was asked if he thought abortion was acceptable in the case of rape, and he said”From what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not on the child.”
A legitimate rape being, of course, a real rape, a scary knife to the throat rape, unless of course the girl was dressed like a slut and asking for it. I think Mr. Akin was thinking of this. The science is valid. It just doesn’t apply to human females.
Todd Akin, expert on feminine biology, is a member of the House Committee for Science, Space and Technology, if you can believe that.
A few random observations:
1. He was leading in the polls before this. Knowing how politics works today, this might not even be enough to beat him. I sure hope so, though. I hope that women in Missouri turn out to vote in massive numbers, Claire McCaskill keeps her Senate seat and there is a reverse-coattails effect that turns Missouri blue.
2. If you’re playing 6 Degrees of Todd Akin, you can link him to Paul Ryan in one. You remember that bill a couple of years back that was going to change the definition of rape to “forcible rape” like all the other kinds don’t count? Yup. Ryan-Akin.
3. His apology was lame.
4. Maybe what we need on the Committee for Science, Space and Technology are some scientists, techies and people who know a thing or two about space. Since you’re not going to find that in congress, it would have to be a volunteer body, with representatives from many different scientific specialties selected by their colleagues. It would be their job to keep our esteemed representatives informed of the scientific knowledge they need to make decisions in this fast changing world, such as “how do babies happen?”
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