RE: Todd Akins

Rep. Todd Akin, the newly-christened GOP Senate nominee in Missouri, said in an interview airing Sunday that “legitimate rape” rarely causes pregnancy.
Explaining his no-exceptions policy on abortions, Akin was asked why he opposes abortion even when the pregnancy is the result of rape.
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in a clip posted to YouTube by the Democratic super PAC American Bridge. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
Akin added: “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.”
Todd Akins also is trying to abolish the reduced and free lunch program for Missouri.

This is my thoughts and response as a responsible citizen of Missouri, an educated woman, a woman who has been raped, an ex US Government employee, a Mother of 3 children who went to public schools in Missouri and lastly a Catholic.

You Sir, are a pompous ass! I am ashamed that you are serving this country in any way and I ask that you step down immediately! Any child that has taken a health class knows that a woman's body cannot tell if a sperm cell is there from natural mating or from rape. The body does not have "Ways to try and shut the whole thing down." On the other hand, the mind has ways of shutting down and blocking the incident. Weather it be in part or whole. But, what it really does is masks it's self and hides until it is ready to come back up. That person may take on a whole new personality for that rape incident. I'm not here to teach you psychology Mr Akin. I am here to make a stand. For those women who have not heard about you, for those people who do not speak out, for those that can't speak out. Let me be the voice. Ignorance of the law is not excepted so why should we accept a politician that is ignorant of what comes out of his mouth. Know what you speak of Mr Akin!

And if you are going to step into Roe vs Wade. Well, I have a lot to say about that too. As a 2nd grader at St Regis Catholic School in Kansas City during that time, we were all loaded up into a bus and taken to a Planned Parenthood Building where we were handed picket signs with dead babies photos on them. Mine had tiny feet between two adult sized fingers. The feet were beet red and developed. You could even see the ridges of the foot prints. 40 years later that is still embedded in my head. I am anti-abortion and I always will be unless there is a very good reason for the abortion like rape. And I think that should be taken care of as soon as possible and the woman should not pay for the rape kit or the abortion. It was not her fault in any way. Adoption... well yes it may be an option for some people but, those people I guarantee are going to need intensive therapy for a long time if they go through an entire pregnancy and birth with a child that they did not want. I was an adopted child. So I know that side of it too.

Now let's take a look at what you want to do with our reduced and free lunch program. Hmm, you want to get rid of it. 646,000 Missouri students — and almost 34 million children across the United States — rely on free or reduced-price meals. So, you want to take the food out of the mouths of children? 34 million children? And what do you think that will get you? A new yacht for you and your buddies every year to run around on taxpayer's dollars? What? You tell me! What can this possibly accomplish? Why don't you just do what they did to the orphans back in the 1920's? Put arsenic in the free milk and kill the kids off. Put them all in a mass grave and just be done with them! There ya go, I fixed it for you. I'm sure you have some really nice thoughts about gays and AIDS too. Maybe this would work out that problem for you also.

My vote is for Claire McCaskill as it always has been. I can only hope and pray that she wins and then decides to take on the Presidency in 2016!