Rape -- Honest, Legitimate and Otherwise

This is a picture of Richard Mourdock who is running for the senate from Indiana.

As you probably know, there are a lot of crazies running for office and Mr. Mourdock is one of them.

This is what he said about rape:

"The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother," said Mourdock, the Tea Party-backed state treasurer. "I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."

Obviously he differs from Todd Akin's position that in the case of a 'legitimate rape' a woman's body can 'shut the whole thing down.'  Presumably Mourdock doesn't think a woman has that magic spermicide that she can launch after a rape.

But obviously Mourdock thinks that God uses rapists for his own damn reasons.

And Ron Paul, who may still be running for the Presidency and is an actual medical doctor, said that in a case of 'honest rape' the victim should go to the ER and he would give them a shot of estrogen.

These are not the only candidates espousing some sort of right to make a woman's health a public affair.  There are far too many of them.

If you are a human being, and female in gender most particularly, all of this crazy talk should frighten you.  Elect any of these delusional men to office and you'll need to consider your uterus and other reproductive organs as public property.

Worse than the Dark Ages

The flap over Representative Todd Akin's 'misspeak' continues.  Akin says he misspoke which means he caught telling an out an out falsehood.  A female rape victim's body doesn't shut down any incoming sperm to prevent pregnancy.

Now we have former governor and current Fox News hot air balloon Mike Huckabee to put his spin on the Akin idiocy.

Huckabee pointed out that we have lots of fine people who were conceived as a result of forcible rape.

Like Ethel Waters.

Is there anyone under 110 who knows who Ethel Waters was?  Well, being over 110 I can tell you she was an African-American actress back in the days when negroes knew their places which were in the back of the bus or washing your kitchen floor.

One can forgive the ancients for thinking that sperm were just little people sent into a woman's vagina to gestate, but it's the twenty-first century and we actually know better.

We know there is such a thing as science and that the moon isn't made out of green cheese.  We know that Creationists are delusional.  Jesus did not ride a dinosaur.

The ancient Greeks and Romans actually had a better handle on reality than the people who call themselves conservatives in this century which is frightening.  What is even worse is that there are idiots electing them to office to make decisions for the rest of us.