Rep. Steve King: I’ve Never Heard Of A Girl Getting Pregnant From Statutory Rape Or Incest

[Tansy_Gold]

69. I think there's a whole lotta teh stoopid goin' on around here

As you point out, King apparently doesn't understand the difference between "forcible" (sic) rape and "statutory" (sic) rape, the latter being consensual sex when one party is under the legal age of consent.

However, even King's spokesperson isn't able to articulate the doofus's position clearly -OR- the TPM reporter is unable to write clearly:

Lesser said “of course” King is aware that girls have been impregnated by statutory rape or incest, and said King supports people who have not been forcibly raped receiving federal abortion coverage under a rape exemption.

“That’s a given for anybody who understands pro-life legislation,” Lesser said.

Is this to be taken to mean that King supports the rights of women who are pregnant but whose pregnancies are not the result of forcible rape to end those pregnancies via federally funded abortions?


MY RANT FOLLOWS:

No means no, and it's really a very simple proposition.

No death penalty means no death penalty. Not for the most heinous of crimes. Not for child murder. Not for mass murder with torture. Not for anything. No means no. Living with the consequences of a no death penalty policy means no innocent person will ever be put to death. It just won't happen. A wrongful conviction can be overturned and some effort made at restitution, but you can't overturn a death penalty once it's carried out. No means no.

No means no, and when it comes to sex, it's really a very simple proposition. No matter when it's said and no matter who says it and no matter what's been said beforehand, if one person says no, then it means no. No sex, no cajoling, no whines, no excuses. No means no. The consequences of living with a no means no sex policy means you do without for the moment, for the evening, for however long, but you can still have sex again, either with that person at another time or with someone else. You don't have to face the guilt and recriminations and even the prosecution for forcing the issue. No means no, and it can be lived with.

If the woman-hating, life-hating, misogynistic theoloons who keep harping on abortion were really against it, then they would simply state no means no. No abortion, not ever, not under any circumstances. And then they would have to live with the consequences -- that innocent women would die, that abortions would still happen but perhaps unsafely, that children would be born unwanted, unloved and perhaps even so physically challenged as to have no quality of life or no life at all. Rapists would assert parental rights, and could enforce them. Eventually, rape would no longer be a crime at all, unless perhaps a crime against the male who owns the female property.

Todd Akin, Steve King, and all your like-minded imbecile friends: Eat shit. You don't have to die, just eat shit.