Sometimes I wonder if it’s just a really skewed impression the media and word of mouth gives you about the United States of America, the people who live there and their political issues. I’m reading today on DN (http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/republikaner-kan-anta-totalt-abortforbud) about the proposition of completely prohibiting abortion that’s part of a republican platform to be implemented during their convention. On my end, the biggest concern and WTF was based on some stuff that congressman Todd Akin said, like the following:
Well you know, people always want to try to make that as one of those things, well how do you, how do you slice this particularly tough sort of ethical question. First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.
What is this Todd guy even thinking? How far into the 21st century do we have to get in order to get away from this anti-abortion-hysteria that the conservatives, and often highly religious people keep tossing around? Do I, as a woman, have to go through a whole new level of hell, after being viciously violated and raped, and have to give birth to a rape child just to avoid breaking the law? Oh, and what exactly is this supposed way of shutting the pregnancy down that the female body has?