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PDFFirst, President Obama responds to Todd Akin’s comments about ‘legitimate rape’:
Second, Obama told Mittens to bring it and to step, when he told Mittens that the the presidency is a privilege, not an entitlement:
I think that is what the American people would rightly expect — is a sense that, particularly when we’re going to be having a huge debate about how we reform our tax code and how we pay for the government that we need, I think people want to know that everybody has been playing by the same rules, including people who are seeking the highest office in the land. This is not an entitlement, being President of the United States. This is a privilege. And we’ve got to put ourselves before the American people to make our case.
And we all know Akins is not alone in his views that only vulgar women get pregnant, because if they got pregnant, according to the GOP, then it really wasn’t a rape — they must’ve wanted it. The GOP is the party of deeply entrenched misogyny:
The fact that the Republican Congress in the House wanted to add the word ‘forcible’ to rape sends a very clear message,” Rep. Jackie Speier added. “And that was a proposal that Rep. Ryan embraced. Let’s be very clear that it’s in the interest of congressional Republicans and I believe the Republican party in general is … to force them into a role that is something out of the dark ages.”
That proposal to redefine rape was in “The No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act,” a bill so important to House Republicans that it was the third thing they introdued in 2011. Both Akin and Ryan co-sponsored that bill, which passed in the House by a vote of 251 to 175.
Rep. Speier has introduced legislation last November, the “Sexual Assault Training Oversight and Prevention Act,” which is designed to combat rape in the military. The bill is languishing in the House Armed Services Committee, of which Rep. Akin is a member.
Ryan and Akin also cosponsored a federal personhood bill, the Sanctity of Human Life Act of 2009, which declares that a fertilized egg is entitled to the exact same legal rights as a human being:
(1) the Congress declares that–
(A) the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being, and is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person; and
(B) the life of each human being begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent, irrespective of sex, health, function or disability, defect, stage of biological development, or condition of dependency, at which time every human being shall have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood;
(11)