Republican Senate Nominee: "Legitimate" rape victims don't get pregnant

You can thank the tea party for that.....they who want to do what the people want instead of what the corrupt bosses demand.

In Charleston, So. Carolina, they, too, pulled a 'tea party' inspired by the Boston patriots. But they off-loaded the tree after taking forceful command of the British ship and stored it in warehouses against possible future need.

The Charleston Visitors Bureau themselves tell that story to the tourists who visit there. That's where I heard it and there's no reason to think they're lying

Shutting down major agricultural regions for the sake of delta smelts.
Destroying dams and hydroelectric plants for salmon.
Shutting down oil operations for lizards.
Refusing to allow oil exploration for the glory of Gaea thus driving gasoline prices to a point at which people have to choose between gas and food.
Using corn and other food stuffs to produce ethanol.

In real life, what that means is that the entire idea is bogus. God could not plausibly have meant for morality and logic to be mutually exclusive.

Do you really eat field corn gunga? Perhaps you should do some research on corn.

Nope on #2 - the Republican party just adopted a platform on this issue that doesn't allow for exceptions in the case of rape, when it comes to abortion -

Here's the language -

Quote:
“Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed,” the draft platform declares. “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.”

Why should Akin quit? He's just toeing the party line. The same line that Ryan supports and that Romney has agreed to several times in the past.

•NO ABORTION IN CASES OF RAPE OR INCEST. The proposal for a “human life amendment” passed without a hitch — and without any exceptions for rape or incest. The committee didn’t stop there; they also adopted language that would ban drugs that end pregnancy after conception, including Plan B.

•SALUTE TO MANDATORY ULTRASOUNDS. The GOP officially praises states’ “informed consent” laws that force women to undergo unnecessary procedures, require waiting periods and endure other measures meant to discourage them from getting an abortion. One such law receiving a “salute” was crafted by committee head McDonnell, who passed a notorious mandatory ultrasound requirement after he signed an unsuccessful bill to require an even more invasive transvaginal probe ultrasound during an abortion consultation.

•NO LEGAL RECOGNITION OF SAME-SEX COUPLES. The committee embraced extreme anti-gay language, even rejecting a proposal to endorse civil unions for gay couples after vehement objections from Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Romney adviser Jim Bopp, who called it a “counterfeit marriage.” The rejection of civil unions, along with the refusal to include a line affirming the legal equality of same-sex couples prompted the organization GOProud to declare, “Those who have engaged in this public platform fight have provided distraction from important issues and damaged Mitt Romney’s campaign.”

•REPLICATE ARIZONA-STYLE IMMIGRATION LAWS. Kris Kobach, who wrote the now mostly invalidated immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama, pushed for language calling for a border fence, a national E-Verify system to make it harder for undocumented workers to find employment, the end of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants and an end to sanctuary cities. The committee overwhelmingly approved the proposals, as well as a line chastising the Department of Justice to halt the lawsuits against draconian immigration laws in Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and Utah: “State efforts to reduce illegal immigration must be encouraged, not attacked.”

•AUDIT THE FED. The pet project of Sen. Ron Paul (R-TX) to audit the Federal Reserve has now been embraced as an official Republican goal. For the first time, the platform calls for an annual audit of the Federal Reserve.

•NO WOMEN IN COMBAT. The platform condemns “social experimentation” in the military, which covers everything from the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to allowing officers to wear their uniforms in gay pride events to letting women serve on the front lines.

•NO STATEHOOD, MORE GUNS FOR WASHINGTON DC. FRC’s Perkins, who recently blamed President Obama and the Southern Poverty Law Center for the shooting at FRC’s Washington headquarters, requested and received a section specifically urging the DC Council to expand gun rights. The same section also opposes DC statehood, which would allow the District to govern itself and put an end to Congressional attempts to impose abortion bans on DC.

His supporters seem to prefer ideology over correctness.