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As the discussion progressed, the committee began to debate whether what Akin said is true. Clark said she worries that if an exception was made for abortions in cases of rape, women would make false rape reports to justify terminating a pregnancy.
Has anyone seen any truth to this going on. Is this just fear pandering?
Clark said she worries that if an exception was made for abortions in cases of rape, women would make false rape reports to justify terminating a pregnancy.
Has anyone seen any truth to this going on. Is this just fear pandering?
You make no sense.
It seems you fail to understand the 2nd conditional.
The second conditional is used to express an unlikely event in the future secondary to another event.
IF the exception were made, THEN women would make more false reports.
The exception has not been made, so there can be no evidence of his happening.
Rape or incest should never be a factor in whether abortions are legal. If the fetus is considered a human it really doesn't matter who the father was. I created a poll a while back to ask when people thought "human life" began (and therefore, when abortion ceased to be "choice" and became "murder"). The options people picked ranged from conception to first breath.
I hope that none of you would consider killing a 1-day-old baby if it comes out the "wrong color" (black girl raped by a white man, or vice versa). If you think that "human life" begins at conception and all abortions are murder, then if you aren't a hypocrite you should feel the same about having an abortion after a rape. If you think "human life" begins when the fetus is viable outside the womb (about 22 weeks or so, with medical intervention), then aborting the pregnancy before then should be acceptable and legal without requiring a "rape exception".
As the discussion progressed, the committee began to debate whether what Akin said is true. Clark said she worries that if an exception was made for abortions in cases of rape, women would make false rape reports to justify terminating a pregnancy.
Has anyone seen any truth to this going on. Is this just fear pandering?
Loon County? I'm surprised that the University town of Columbia isn't Progressive enough for even you.
Unfortunately women have been known to make false rape accusations before. Since abortion on demand is currently legal there is little reason for women to justify killing the human life growing in their womb.
John C. Willke, a physician and former president of the National Right to Life Committee, lays out his case fairly clearly in a 1999 article in Life Issues Connector, which is still reprinted on anti-abortion websites: "To get and stay pregnant a woman's body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones," and the terrible trauma of "assault rape" can upset that hormone cocktail and "radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation, and even nurturing of a pregnancy." Is there any scientific basis for this belief?
No. It's the "contemporary equivalent of the early American belief that only witches float," says Franke-Ruta
John C. Willke, a physician and former president of the National Right to Life Committee, lays out his case fairly clearly in a 1999 article in Life Issues Connector, which is still reprinted on anti-abortion websites: "To get and stay pregnant a woman's body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones," and the terrible trauma of "assault rape" can upset that hormone cocktail and "radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation, and even nurturing of a pregnancy." Is there any scientific basis for this belief?
No. It's the "contemporary equivalent of the early American belief that only witches float," says Franke-Ruta
[LEFT]During his 2008 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney welcomed the endorsement of a pro-life doctor linked to Rep. Todd Akin’s widely condemned statement that “legitimate rape” rarely leads to pregnancy.
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GOP Should add "Witches Float" to their platform. Might as well. "A Woman might fake a rape to get a free abortion."
