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Karen1069 Wrote: Aug 23, 2012 10:30 AM

Having experienced the miscarriage of 4 of my children, as well as raising 3 children to adulthood, your digression about miscarriage is just drivel. Having held my son in my hand only 13 weeks into gestation, he was as perfectly formed as one could imagine. My body could not support the pregnancy due to hormonal issues. For you to dismiss the loss of a pregnancy in so cavalier a manner is insulting.

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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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