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DANIEL59 Wrote: Aug 23, 2012 8:57 AM

The judge is right. Two wrongs don't make a right. If the mother of the baby still doesn't want it after it is born she can put it up for adoption. Akin's point of view that a woman's body has a tendency to close down to the conception process is how the secular educational system taught this in some schools. It is the way it was taught to me also. So if you disagree with this then blame it on the educational system not Akin.

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Abortion and Rape

The criticisms of the recent absurd comments by Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin, who at this writing is his party's nominee to take on incumbent Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in November in a contest he had been expected to win, have focused on his clearly erroneous understanding of the human female anatomy. In a now infamous statement, in which he used the bizarre and unheard-of phrase "legitimate rape," the congressman gave the impression that some rapes of women are not mentally or seriously resisted. This is an antediluvian and misogynistic myth for which there is no basis in fact and...

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