Like many, I'm tempted to blow off Todd Akin's comments about pregnancy as the product of rape being impossible. It's so obviously stupid that it's hard to know how to respond. This has given me some insight into how anti-choice politics work. Akin probably has a hard time believing something so horrible could just happen to someone who was raped (something already horrible having happened to her). I concur that it's difficult to comprehend. Once in a while, you hear about something so bad that it just can't be the case that it ever has happened or ever will.
Except it did happen and will happen again. People do things to mitigate the horror of an unfair world. In the case of rape producing pregnancy, most people tend to agree that the best thing we can do to mitigate the horror is to let a woman opt for aborting the pregnancy. But if you live in a tidy world where there is always a correct, not-just-acceptable-but-good choice, you just don't get pregnant when you're raped. If you're pregnant, you were obviously not raped, so STFU.
If the world were just, we wouldn't have to enforce justice on it. If our leaders can't handle that, they're irresponsible vermin who should slink back into their fetid caves and hide until we've forgotten about them.
The last people who we need in charge are the ones who have not asked the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" because they think bad things don't happen to good people.
Except it did happen and will happen again. People do things to mitigate the horror of an unfair world. In the case of rape producing pregnancy, most people tend to agree that the best thing we can do to mitigate the horror is to let a woman opt for aborting the pregnancy. But if you live in a tidy world where there is always a correct, not-just-acceptable-but-good choice, you just don't get pregnant when you're raped. If you're pregnant, you were obviously not raped, so STFU.
If the world were just, we wouldn't have to enforce justice on it. If our leaders can't handle that, they're irresponsible vermin who should slink back into their fetid caves and hide until we've forgotten about them.
The last people who we need in charge are the ones who have not asked the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" because they think bad things don't happen to good people.