The Devil Inside Paul Ryan and Todd Akin’s Redefinition of Rape

Yesterday we were treated to Representative Todd Akin’s (R-MO) pronouncement that you can’t get pregnant during a “legitimate” rape because a woman’s body kills the sperm of an unwanted partner. To be precise, Akin said, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” This man is not only a Representative but he’s running for the more highly esteemed Senate. He pretends to be clueless about biology, while at the same time presuming that he has the divine right to make medical decisions for women.

Romney and Ryan are trying to run away from Akin this morning, saying they are for abortion in the case of rape, but history tells a different story. Akin is aligned with our new Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Paul Ryan, on women’s issues. Back in 1998 as he first ran for his seat, Paul Ryan said he was against abortion in all cases except the life of the mother. You might be wondering why Paul Ryan never got around to crunching the numbers on his budget, well, see, he was super busy redefining rape as only qualifying when it’s “forcible rape”.

In January of 2011, Ryan and Akin put women in a carrier atop their car and headed straight for high forcible winds until a public outcry stopped them from the language in the bill they co-sponsored (along with most of the Republicans in the House), called the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act”, which attempted to redefine rape. Other kinds of rape would no longer count. It mattered not that the Hyde Amendment already keeps federal funding from going to abortions except in the case of rape, incest or health of the mother. Ryan and Akin et al needed more.

They needed to redefine rape that qualifies a woman for an abortion as forcible rape. Sure, that’s not a real definition but that’s the beauty of it. You’d have to prove to their satisfaction that you were forcibly raped in order to qualify an abortion, when most rapes do not involve that kind of “force”. Most rapes, in fact, go unreported. There are other kinds of force of course, but these are not recognized by the fact-averse gentlemen who think that women’s bodies kill the sperm of men they don’t like.

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