I saw a quote from Akin and he said that he thinks you are punishing innocent life if you have an abortion - no matter the circumstances by which the woman got pregnant.

But the morning after pill would solve that in some cases. So he should be all for it!

Running mate Ryan handsome young suction gold

A NYT headline, machine-translated into Chinese and back into English

I wanna know about the 'suction gold' thing....

But the morning after pill would solve that in some cases.

Many conservatives view the morning after pill as a type of abortion.

Along with some other forms of contraception.

Ryan thinks this, btw.

Many conservatives view the morning after pill as a type of abortion.

Many conservatives also seem to think that this (among other biological facts) is a matter of opinion.

I can only conclude from this that many conservatives are too stupid to live and should not be put in charge of legislating things.

That's what killed me. Akin is on the Science and Technology Committee. It is no wonder some of our public policies are so fucked up.

I don't necessarily need to agree with everyone on various committees, but I think someone on the Science and Technology Committee SHOULD BELIEVE IN SCIENCE.

Fucking seriously.

Many conservatives view the morning after pill as a type of abortion.

Drives me crazy. It prevents OVULATION not fertilization.

many conservatives are too stupid to live and should not be put in charge of legislating things.

Wrod to the wrod.

Many conservatives view the morning after pill as a type of abortion.

This is totally parenthetical to the many other levels of massive wrongness in everything he said, but it just niggles... if this is true, then really the woman's secret secretions that "take care of all that" if she's been raped should, logically, be just as much a type of abortion -- just like the morning after pill, it's a chemical process preventing an egg from being fertilized (or possibly, as a theoretical but not yet proven secondary mode of activation, preventing a fertilized egg from implanting). For the egg -- excuse me, the innocent pre-born child -- the end result is exactly the same. How does he rationally justify it being a Human Life worthy of defense and protection if the rape survivor takes a pill, but just an "all that" to be insouciantly "taken care of" if she's mystically attacking it with her own secret ladyparts?

Not that he isn't every possible flavor of wrong already, but for some reason every time I think about that particular speck of total intellectual and moral inconsistency I just want to cockpunch the shit out of him.

I suppose I could have expressed myself in a more ladylike fashion, but fuck him.

Only brand new, pre-born life is THAT precious.

After it's born, it's just a ploy to get welfare.

Drives me crazy. It prevents OVULATION not fertilization.

The packaging says it could prevent implantation, but my friend who works in the field says that's pretty definitively not true. But the company that makes the drugs has to pay a crapload of money to the FDA to change the packaging, and they don't care enough to do it.