"Legitimate Rape"

Reblogged from unrepentant old hippie:

If the Republican Party can survive this kind of vicious idiocy:

Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview 

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Update: See also (in the original post) that Akin says he misspoke.

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Missouri funeral anti–protesting law struck down

A United States federal court has ruled a Missouri law prohibiting protesting at funerals is unconstitutional (via). It was targeted against Fred Phelps and his ilk. As much as a vile, despicable human being Phelps is, this is the correct decision. If Westboro Baptist Church does not have freedom of expression, no one does.

Missouri House is opposed to personal responsibility

Via The Well-Timed Period comes news that the Missouri House of Representatives has passed a law allowing pharmacists and pharmacies to not follow minimum standards of care. In other words, they have just allowed people, who voluntarily entered into a line of work, knowing full well what they were getting into, to avoid taking personal responsibility for their actions and not do their jobs.

Somehow, I don’t expect a mad rush of legislators to pass a bill allowing pacifists who enlist in the military and who refuse to fight to avoid desertion charges.