{"id":41853,"date":"2018-06-06T06:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T06:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/01\/17\/effort-to-akin-ize-pro-life-republicans-continues-apace\/"},"modified":"2018-06-06T06:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T06:08:38","slug":"effort-to-akin-ize-pro-life-republicans-continues-apace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/41853","title":{"rendered":"Effort to Akin-ize pro-life Republicans continues apace"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NicholsUprising\/status\/291994117213396992\n

Pollster Kellyanne Conway told a group of Republican lawmakers to stop talking about rape, according to an article <\/a>by Politico.<\/p>\n

The advice comes in the wake of remarks about rape last year by pro-life candidates Todd Akin of Missouri and Richard Mourdock of Indiana, both of whom lost U.S. Senate races in November.<\/p>\n

Last week, Rep. Phil Gingrey, a Republican from Georgia, said that Akin was “partly right” that women who are raped are unlikely to get pregnant.<\/p>\n

We are unaware of any reputable scientific studies that support this claim.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, in an attempt to diffuse the controversy, Gingrey’s office threw both Akin and Mourdock under the bus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I do not defend, nor do I stand by, the remarks made by Rep. Akin and Mr. [Richard] Mourdock. In my attempt to provide context as to what I presumed they meant, my position was misconstrued.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, liberal tweeters (who love seeing the word “rape” and “Republican” in the same sentence) are reveling in the story:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/themrmer\/status\/291993695912333312<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/jesseltaylor\/status\/291992304254873600<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/markos\/status\/291991695468404736<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/beth4158\/status\/291994428288151552<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamsteinberger\/status\/292003476467224577<\/a><\/p>\n

Akin’s comments, of course,were ignorant, garbled nonsense<\/a>, and many conservatives said so at the time.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Mourdock simply said that life is a gift from God, and he believes this to be true even in cases where life results from “that horrible situation of rape”:<\/p>\n

The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. 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.<\/p>\n

Mourdock repeated the point:<\/p>\n

God creates life, and that was my point. God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that He does. Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick.<\/p>\n

This is an honorable man who spoke clearly and with conviction. He was wrongly portrayed as a lunatic<\/a> and is now being thrown under the bus even by Republicans.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it’s not as if Mourdock just blurted out his comments apropos of nothing. He spoke about rape only after being asked about his position on abortion during a debate. How would Kellyanne Conway have him respond? Refuse to answer the question?<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveweigel\/status\/291991778834399232<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianbeutler\/status\/291994687722643456<\/a><\/p>\nPerhaps what Kellyanne Conway really wants to say (but won’t because she doesn’t want to alienate pro-lifers) is that pro-life Republicans should moderate their position on abortion. Talking less about rape has nothing to do with it.

Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/01\/17\/effort-to-akin-ize-pro-life-republicans-continues-apace\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NicholsUprising\/status\/291994117213396992 Pollster Kellyanne Conway told a group of Republican lawmakers to stop talking about rape, according to an article by Politico. The advice comes in the wake of remarks about rape last year by pro-life candidates Todd Akin of Missouri and Richard Mourdock of Indiana, both of whom lost U.S. Senate races in November. Last week, Rep. … Continue reading Effort to Akin-ize pro-life Republicans continues apace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/15282005217142-todd-akin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}