Todd Akin - WTF?

Americans are intelligent, spirited, and free-thinking. We respond and react to all kinds of news everyday. Let's all take a deep breath and THINK, really think, about what our candidates and legislators are saying and doing.

Thank you, Congressman Akin, for informing me, as a woman, that I have a little trap door inside my reproductive system that will shut if I am being raped....legitimately raped, that is, and prevent conception. I am grateful that you serve on the House Science Committee in Washington and have learned and shared this tidbit of biological science with me. Just think, I'm 61 years old and I never knew that!

I am also grateful to learn that there seems to be a difference between legitimate rape and I guess I will call it illegitimate rape. I always thought rape was RAPE, was never legitimate, legally and morally speaking, and that it was a criminal act of sexual intercourse or other sexual acts perpetrated upon a woman against her will. Please educate me as to the definition of "legitimate rape". BTW, I do understand that rape is, rarely, committed on men.

I think, sir, that you are at the very least, terribly misinformed, and at worst, a misogynist whose medieval taliban-like thinking came out of the closet oh-so-publicly yesterday. I hope you are finished as a politician and a "leader".

I think Republicans and anyone who espouses their views on human sexuality, abortion and birth control need to let some light and air actually circulate in their heads. Let me give you an example to help you think this through....

I am raped. I become pregnant as a result of this rape, because my magical little trap door doesn't shut. I am wounded mentally, emotionally and spiritually, and perhaps develop PTSD. My Republican government has made it illegal for me to have an abortion (this is what the Repubs are really after - reversal of Roe v. Wade), and so I carry and birth this child. I am single, and now I am a single mother - another social identity the Republicans frown on. I cannot work, because I have a baby to care for and raise. I am emotionally and mentally damaged from the experience of legitimate rape. I have no money to care for myself and this child. I know!!! I'll ask my government for help; after all, they made me keep the pregnancy. I'll apply for welfare......oops, just remembered, ALL GONE. So is Medicaid, Food Stamps, and child care. My Republican government has eliminated these help-the-needy programs to reduce the national debt and to shrink government, and to reduce their own taxes. What do I do now? This is a serious question  I would like any Republican to answer.....perhaps Todd Akin will dig into his own pocket to help me out, putting his money where his mouth is. You may call yourself pro-life, anti-abotion, some even anti-birth control, but you are not supporters of this life once it is in the world needing care and support.

And now, since children carry the DNA from the 2 people who conceived them and tend to actually look like their egg and sperm donors, I get to look into the face of my rapist for the rest of my life.

I am a victim of a hate crime, a crime of rage, a crime committed on my body, and that's the key here that the religious right and Republicans seem to ignore...MY BODY.  Anti-abortion legislators  are mostly men, and you have absolutely not one clue about the experience of conception, pregnancy and birth, and never will.

As a thinker, I respectfully ask Republicans to take religion, and all its inherent shame, blame, and guilt about sexuality (I should say female sexuality), out of politics. Whatever happened to Separation of Church and State? I respectfully ask you to get out of my vagina, my uterus, my whole sexual nature, and to rethink your solutions of vaginal probes,  forced pregnancy, legitimate rape, magical trap doors. I ask you to consider the reality that you have absolutely no right to commandeer what choices a woman makes about her own body.

I also often think about the fact that in all the insanity around the issue of  SEX and women, I have never heard one word about sperm, forcing a MAN to look at sonograms of fetuses, asking men to pay for abortion of fetuses they have created, legislating that a man who created the fetus also be considered a murderer. Really, what's up with that? How did they become exempt?

Just think about it....use your intelligence, and if that's too big of a request, use your common sense.

Tomorrow's blog: Mitt Romney and Stericycle. How he made millions of dollars on abortion.