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Title: Ryan On Abortion Exceptions: Rape Is Just Another ‘Method Of Conception’
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RawStory
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/ ... -another-method-of-conception/
Published: Aug 24, 2012
Author: David Edwards
Post Date: 2012-08-24 15:07:52 by Brian S
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Views: 7700
Comments: 20
Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says that he personally believes that rape is just another “method of conception” and not an excuse to allow abortions. During an interview with WJHL this week, Ryan was asked his view about Rep. Todd Akin, who recently asserted that women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape.” “Specifically where you stand when it comes to rape, and when it comes to the issue of should it be legal for a woman to be able to get an abortion if she’s raped?” WJHL Josh Smith wondered. “I’m very proud of my pro-life record, and I’ve always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn’t change the definition of life,” Ryan explained. “But let’s remember, I’m joining the Romney-Ryan ticket. And the president makes policy.” “And the president, in this case the future President Mitt Romney, has exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother, which is a vast improvement of where we are right now.” MSNBC’s Steve Benen noted that responses like this were probably the reason that Romney is refusing to take any questions about Akin or abortion. “In this case, when Ryan says ‘the method of conception’ is irrelevant, he’s talking about rape,” Benen wrote. “In other words, the Republicans’ vice presidential nominee clearly believes the government should force women to take their pregnancy to term if they are impregnated by a rapist.” “Republicans can only distance themselves so much from Todd Akin before we realize they share his views.”
Poster Comment: GOP establishments worst f'n fears...abortion as a main issue. Bring it on!
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
'talking about rape my arse.......he is talking about an innocent life who had nothing at all to do with how he or she was conceived. Killing a child for the sin of a parent is reprehensible. Alas, the idiots at MSNBC are too stupid to understand what is and was being said....they only try to use words that will inflame rather than inform to aid their perverted liberal causes. Lousy journalism and journalist--if you can even call them that.
Evidently you're stupid enough to believe this, Ms. Brian. You poor thing.
After Willard Mitt's birth, his mother became a firm believer in a woman's right to kill babies, and ran on that issue in her senate campaign.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Except he never said that.
Ryan just went up a notch in my book.
You the 'original' or unsalted?
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
Except he never said that. Do you think Akin should drop out of his senate race?
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
And Goldwater's warning about the possible future of the GOP comes to fruition.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
No. I would vote for him. What he said was kind of stupid. But that doesn't make him a bad person. He never said a woman couldn't get pregnant. I think he said it was less likely. Or something to that effect. He was wrong as far as I know. I can see how reasonable people would support abortion in the case of rape. I still see it as taking an innocent life. But I am not as upset about that as using abortion as birth control.
And Goldwater's warning about the possible future of the GOP comes to fruition. Goldwater was kind of stupid in his later years. Killing innocent babies is the plank of sickos.
This one? It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
I'm with you. Dems can't afford to loose this seat and Akin is a 'godsend' for them.
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
He is right. We don't compromise with evil. I am for destroying evil.
Do you think Goldwater was 'evil'...?
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
I don't know enough about him. He was before my time. I know he said some pretty stupid stuff in his later years.
HA! I can only imagine the crap you will be spouting in your 'later years'...if you make it there.
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
He's seems to have been pretty accurate. Certainly a lot more accurate than the ziofundies who are constantly trying to predict the future and falling flat on their butts every time
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Why are you asking me? I don't live in Missouri.....
I added you to the ping because if kind of relates to what we were talking about earlier on another thread. That wasn't my question. It was Brian S's.
Oh, yeah - right you are. sorry didn't bother to read all the comments..... So I'll repeat myself. I don't live in Missouri - it's none of my concern whether or not this ass-bite represents the republicans in this race or not.
“In this case, when Ryan says ‘the method of conception’ is irrelevant, he’s talking about rape,” Benen wrote. “In other words, the Republicans’ vice presidential nominee clearly believes the government should force women to take their pregnancy to term if they are impregnated by a rapist
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: Brian S, *Extended Clip Progressives* (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
Todd Akin, who recently asserted that women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape.”
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
“I’m very proud of my pro-life record, and I’ve always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn’t change the definition of life,” Ryan explained. “But let’s remember, I’m joining the Romney-Ryan ticket. And the president makes policy.”
#6. To: Zesta (#2)
#7. To: A K A Stone (#4)
Todd Akin, who recently asserted that women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape.”
#8. To: Brian S (#0)
GOP establishments worst f'n fears...abortion as a main issue. Bring it on!
#9. To: Brian S, Jameson (#7)
Do you think Akin should drop out of his senate race?
#10. To: mininggold (#8)
GOP establishments worst f'n fears...abortion as a main issue. Bring it on!
#11. To: mininggold (#8)
And Goldwater's warning about the possible future of the GOP comes to fruition.
#12. To: A K A Stone (#9)
No. I would vote for him.
#13. To: Brian S (#11)
#14. To: A K A Stone (#13)
#15. To: Brian S (#14)
#16. To: A K A Stone (#15)
I know he said some pretty stupid stuff in his later years.
#17. To: A K A Stone (#15)
(Edited)
I don't know enough about him. He was before my time. I know he said some pretty stupid stuff in his later years.
#18. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Do you think Akin should drop out of his senate race?
#19. To: Jameson (#18)
#20. To: A K A Stone, Brian S (#19)
That wasn't my question. It was Brian S's.
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