Mitt (R-Money) still hasn't explained how his view is "entirely different." Todd Akin wants to outlaw abortion in all circumstances; Mitt Romney does too, at least in his current incarnation as Republican presidential candidate in the year 2012.

And if Mitt disagreed in any substantive way, why did he put a misogynist like Ryan on the ticket?

unfortunately it doesn't matter who you send,it never seems to get any better,sometimes I can understand the last time my Dad voted,Nixon was in office and he figured the election was fixed and that all politicians are corrupt in their own way, and he never voted again~~ sometimes I feel that way too,but I vote anyway because I want my vote to count,especially in this election.It's too important not to vote in this coming election

Sorry dogs80. I live in Missouri and Akin's is toast, along with failed farmer Billy Long. Have you noticed the republican farmers that couldn't make ago of it working on their farms are the ones running for a job in the House.

We didn't find it, the moron opened his own mouth.

I am originally from MO, and I cannot believe this is the best that you could find to represent the state.

dogs80 - "other than policy" - really??? Rep Ryan co-sponsored bills with this Rep. Pretty sure that was policy!!!! Stop your hating women and wake up before it to late.

dogs80, the repubs and their teabaggers just keep on giving and giving. Wait until people realize that Aikin said the he "empathizes' with raped women. What ? Aikin, you know how it feels? I sympathize but as a man I could not emphathize.

dogs80 - If Todd Akin is the best your GOP has to offer the state of MO, then I feel sorry for the state of MO!! He can't hold a candle to Claire McCaskill's leadership or intelligence. Period.

Missouri is the "show me state",and Akin has shown he is an ass !, we have a lot of family in Missouri too,in and around Springfield,West Plains,Mountain View and a few other of the little towns around there,so no,I doubt they'll be voting for him either. Hope to move myself back there too in the not too distant future !

I'm curious how this lunacy works for other parts of the law. If in vitro still remains legal, can I get eight embryos implanted and claim an extra eight dependents on my taxes this year? What if all those embryos fail to implant? Will the DA bring me up on charges of manslaughter? What about if I fail to take neo-natal vitamins -- is that reckless endangerment?

If people have taken the time to think through the implications of "personhood" laws and still support the idea, then the right has gotten even crazier than I ever imagined.

They are crazier than you can imagine. And more dangerous.

Romney didn't have a choice. Even if he did select as a running mate a man who wanted to legislate that a woman can die rather than get a life-saving abortion. Ryan wanted to change the definition of rape so that 14 year old can be impregnated by an older man, but not be considered raped unless she has black eyes, a busted lip and other marks of a beating. A woman can have an etopic pregnancy and die of it. Great.

And NH_Shellback-thanks for the name-calling; you show your lack of maturity and understanding.

mitt twits religion(mormon) marries 11 & 12 yr old little girls to be forced to marry 60 yr old men. this is part of the practice of their religious beliefs.(child brides they call it).

Romney has not called Akins out. Akins described official republicon policy. Do you know that bill, HR3, that Akins and Ryan cosponsored? the language in that bill has been in the republicon party platform since 1976!

Romney fully supports the republicon party platform, I think. He does lie a documented 71% of the time.

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mitt twits religion(mormon) marries 11 & 12 yr old little girls to be forced to marry 60 yr old men. this is part of the practice of their religious beliefs.(child brides they call it).

Liars, racists, and bigots - the REAL face of the democrat party

legitimate Mormons don't practice that,only the off shoot sects do that,I am not a Mormon,look at the Osmond family and they each only have one spouse.

that's not totally true,a lot of voters will look and see the shape the country is in and decide if they want 4 more years of what we already have,and a good percentage will say no and vote the other way,case and point,every democratic voter I know is going to vote for Romney come election time because we don't want another 4 yrs of what we have now (I am a registered Democrat)

Watch it with the imagery. Almost choked on my scones.

Although is it rape when the people cheerfully lube up for it?

and doctor - THIS is what we MUST educate people about. These guys are very very dangerous to us all. They truly are. Women have the most to loose and I am doing everything I can to educate all women on what these guys are trying to do womens rights. they will NEVER get the chance to take away MY CHOICE!!!! never never. And then take away my 'ENTITLEMENTS'. OBAMA/BIDEN 2012. come join our group on fb - women against romney/ryan and for women's rights. we are trying to get the word out to as many people as possible.

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It is truly amazing to me.....the Romney/Ryan is a series of slogans and taglines. It is unbelievable to listen to these two talk about policy...rip on Obama...distort history...and refuse to give detail about anything they're going to do.

If Romney/Ryan win, it will be the biggest American snow-job in recent history.

romney"s 8.9 million dolar home/ryan"s 429 thousand dollar home. ryan used government money to go to college but he doesnt want anyone else to have the privilege.these guys want to privatize medicare so only the rich will be able to have medicare.(privatization -means you pay for your own insurance and what it covers the government doesnt pay anything).mitt&pauly want to do away with medicaid for the children,poor working and the disabled.these guys are the tea party favorites.and i am still living with a blue roof from hurrricane ike.me live with big leak.(bush era 2008).

seems like Obamacare is doing the same thing,so whats the difference

hey kurt - who died and left you the "authority" on abortions. you and your kind will never tell me what i can and can not do with my own body and take away my choice. you will never never never get that right. obama/biden 2012.

Sorry slappy, given the fact you're a guy and wouldn't have to carry an unwanted child as a result of rape or incest to term, you should keep your trap shut. As if the trauma of being raped wasn't enough...there's a daily reminder that it occurred.

Your viewpoints are repulsive.

I always get a laugh at you people who claim to care so much about the unborn, but, once they are born and they're in poverty or are poor, you don't give a **** about them. Cut all programs to the poor....because children already born aren't that important.

Kurt - you jumped on the wrong post today - seriously you and your followers need to join the rest of us in this century. Keep your faith just don't push it on the rest of us - also if you are sincere about make sure that no women should have an abortion I hope you are ready to help raise, feed, cloth, educate and pay for their health care for the rest of thier lives. It's easy to say just do have an abortion when you don't have to live with having to raise this child. How many kids have you adopted - how much are you willing to pay in taxes to make sure that no child is left hungry. Seriously what world do you live in???

Easy, thanks for your response, NO one has authority over an abortion, that is why the Supreme Court as no authority in making it "legal". No one should have the authority to kill innocent children and then call it a choice. By they it is NOT YOUR body nor MY Body, it is the child that is being aborted NOT YOU nor I. The only possible authority is the one who is about to be aborted. I am sure NO one would choose a death the same way as an abortion, far too cruel having your limbs torn from your sockets and skull crushed.

Because a male Christofascist like Ryan, Romney or Akin should control what goes on in a woman's uterus, right Kurt?

How again are you nuts different from the Taliban?

Thanks Shrekk, I agree no one should control the baby in the uterus, it has a right to a pursuit of happeniness, innocent until proven guilty. No one chould have control to the life and death of innocent people.

Very different from Taliban Skrekk, This is about individual rights of life of the innocent which the taliban does not confirm to.

How again are your views different from the Taliban, Kurt? Like you, they think the government should be used to impose their religious code on everyone, and like you they oppose abortion in all cases.

Skrekk, you should NOT impose YOUR Religious code on Innocent Children by condeming them to death. If You chose to commit Suicide the same way as an abortion, that is YOUR choice. Just do NOT force YOUR "choice" on innocent babies just as the Taliban should not kill men without grown beards. You do believe in our Founding Fathers concept of Innocent until proven guilty, don't you? Explain how and/or why the child is guilty for the act of a horrible adult? One horrible act should not justify YOUR Religious will of having innocent children killed.

Kurt, just like the Taliban you've confused a blastocyst with a child.

I'm curious though.....why do you want to use the government to enforce your sharia laws?

Skrekk, sorry you are confused with different stages of life and your religious determination to discriminate by age. Skrekk, just like the Taliban crushing a skull by stoning to death, your religious devotion of child sacrifice of crushing little children's skulls is an outrage at best. Just like the Taliban, they send their young to their deaths in homocide missions, you send the young to their deaths of your religious belief that it ok to kill the innocent youth.

i dont agree with abortion except in cases of rape incest or the life of the mother either.with all the modern technology vascectomy, hysterectomy, tube ties,bith control. i got a headache tonight.to f*)&(^ around not be resposible for bringing a baby into this world.is a simple case of irresponciabilty and greed.

Birth Control to the Right is First Degree Murder TeaxsT.

I do wonder, The Right wants federal laws(Requiring increasing govt. to enforce the laws) to force women to have their babies, even if they die.

You do realize these children will be born as a "rape reminder" by their mother, her husband, not the father, will likely hold ill will toward that child as well. Will the Govt. oversee each birth, monitoring each child's growth?? Or, by chance a Govt. Child Camp for all the unwanted??? I do know every poster demanding their will on others will have not a damn thing to do to help that child grow. In fact, they scream quite loudly to end ANY program that might remotely help that child.

What the Hell is up??? You just want to make sure you have a supply of ill adjusted youth for your ongoing wars?

With birth control and education, abortions have gone DOWN. You want less abortions, then you should support birth control, instead of making it a capitol crime.

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Ummmm, this "nutcase" says a woman's body shuts down if REAL rape is happening and she won't get pregnant, if she gets pregnant, it wasn't rape. Well, Ryan, you seem to support his view, I wonder, Goddess forbid, your wife is raped, resulting in a pregnancy, Will you be upset because she "enjoyed" being raped, or welcome the child with open arms as a gift from God??? Either way, at least THAT child will be born to $$$ and have no want, except maybe love.

Women!!!!! Let your Goddess Shine.... ( Some men actually support you and NOT want you enslaved or think of you as property. Some of us men actually see the goddess you are.)

Much Love n FREEDOM,

Da Pup

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Kurt, sounds like you need to be neutered. How many unaborted children have you sponsored, adopted or taken care of?

Philyp, Kurt, sounds like you need to be neutered.......................

Scared me there at first, the word "neutered" always gets a Dog's attention..... >:o):

you are not a woman,try putting yourself in their shoes and what your reaction would be if you were a victim of rape and you ended up pregnant or if the pregnancy was life threatening for the mother,anyway you look at it it would be a difficult decision,and still that decision falls on the woman.Do you have any idea how stressful that would be on anyone,and no politician or church has the right to take that decision from anyone.Now maybe you can see it from a woman's point of view,it would never be an easy decision and if it is,they need serious help.You will find most women do not think an abortion is a viable source of birth control,and yes,some women who are pregnant from the result of a rape do carry and have the child,because said child is innocent.And then there are others who are raped and can't deal with being pregnant with their rapists baby,so you really need to look at it from the other side so to speak,just because some rape victims decide the best choice for them is to abort the fetus,you really can't accuse them of murder.I couldn't tell you what my decision would be if it happened to me, I am lucky to have my family that would abide by the decision I made and not condemn me for it,again it would be a difficult decision.... think about it,or better yet,ask women you know what they would do if they were in that situation,their answers may surprise you

Is the baby guilty of the rape? Sort of like saying let us kill the Security Guard of the Bank that had to be hired due to a bank robbery. The child is the result of a rape not the cause of the rape. Have some compassion on children.

Kurt - If that would be your choice fine. Just do not think for one minute you have the moral license to impose your will on everyone else.

Tell ya what Kurt, why don't you get raped and be forced to carry the baby? Since you are a guy how about you get "legitimately" raped by another dude, and find out you now have a polyp on your colon. Sorry, you shouldn't be able to remove it, its made of living cells. It may kill you but too bad, you don't have any rights to your own body. Sounds fair?

Exactly, apmprescott, do NOT impose the will on Innocent children. Do you really think any wants to be killed the same way as an abortion? Name a single instance ANYONE committed suicide the same way as an abortion. Never force anyone to be so cruelly killed such as an abortion, the pain is horrible.

Detriot, I am sure we can both agree rape is horrible. I am also sure we can BOTH agree we need to avoid as much as possible in killing innocent people. Since I am sure we both agree with both statments above, why kill an innocent baby due to the actions of a horrible adult? Stop using innocent children as scapegoats.

Kurt - Because at that moment it may, or may not, be a hand full of viable cells and not an "innocent" child as you feel. Again, no one is denying you your right of choice on the subject and nor should anyone have the right to deny that choice or belief of any victim.

apmprescott, I assume you have viewed a sonagram before, you have to admit it is "something" living in there, don't you? Or are you too stubborn to face the facts? We are all of "viable cells", so it would be the choice of someone like Stalin or Pol Pot to kill off millions as we are all just of "viable cells" and they are justify it with the "right of choice". Apmprescott, I am sure if it was a "choice" to kill off any group that you may belong to, you would be against it. Stop your genocidal age discrimination just because you happen to be too old to be aborted

I have compassion for the baby,but I also have compassion for the victim in this case,now what would you do if it was you or one of your loved ones in that position,would you deny them the right to make the choice they feel is best for them ~~~ think about it

easy, so you have no problem with abortion for gender selection with your "rights as a woman". Here is the fact, in China and Viet Nam, over 95% of the abortions for gender selection due to limits in # of children parents are legally allowed to have, it is the girl that is aborted for a boy. This is true war on Women by killing young girls due to their gender.

Nhan Quyen Cho Viet Nam! Human Rights for Vietnam! (including all the aborted girls due to their gender)

We are not talking China or any other country. We are talking about America where people are fortunate enough to make their own decisions and choices. I have no problem in respecting your right to think as you do on the matter but in a democracy that also means others are deserving of that same right to personal beliefs.

The extreme faction that has literally hijacked the GOP is more scary to me as an Independent than anything else seen. Elected officials and those wanting to be elected doing nothing more than walking in "lock-step" over social issues reminds me of some very bad things from history. I never expect to see everyone perfectly agree on a topic but when candidates such as Akin and Ryan make the statement they do, everyone should recognize it is not a matter of mis-speaking but rather what they believe and how they would govern and that is a formula I see as harmful for our country.

Kurt - I do have to give you one thing you are passionate - scary passionate. You are entitled to your views which is what living in America is go great. Not everyone agrees with your point of views that the mass of cells that at conception are a human being. Not until it is viable outside of the womb - should it be any ones business other than the mother and doctors.

You see it as killing which is fine - then don't have an abortion. You nor anyone else have a right to tell or legislate how someone else should feel or do with their body plan and simple. I suggest moving on with your life and leave everyone else's alone.

Self > your quote > "I suggest moving on with your life and leave everyone else's alone." EXACTLY Self, Please leave the life of our innocent youngest ones alone for they NEVER harmed you nor anyone. They are the right to the pursuit of happiness just as you and I have. You would not like someone with the "right" to kill you at will and then call it "pro-choice", we need no Pol Pots in our socieity or any society for that matter. Afterall, it is NOT you nor I getting aborted, leave the innocent children alone unless you can prove in cases they are actually guilty of a crime or a direct threat to someone else's life.

obama care rides 99 to 1 over romney privatization of medicare voucher care =(no care).

Union - How can Romney do that when he holds a very close position on the matter and worse has selected a running mate, Ryan, that thinks exactly like Akin does on the subject.

People can not run away from their position on this matter and every time one of them speaks about it they either to the political soft shoe of not telling the truth, or in the case at hand say "exactly" what they mean and stand for.

That Mittwit can not chastise Akins. they hold the same viewpoint. The language in HR3, the bill Akins and Ryan cosponsored has also been in the republicon national party platform since 1976.

What Akins said is official republicon party policy. The republicon party platform keeper this year is "state rape" McDonnel.

44% of the money donated to Obama so far comes from women.

Iowa - You don not think this should have anything to do with Romney. Guess what; the running mate he has selected holds nearly the identical position as Akin. So yes, it kinda does as that is how they think and worse yet believe how they have the right to impose their ideology on everyone else in the country.