Very possibly, the media coverage of this statement has much and everything to
do with election day so close to our nose. Both Romney and Obama administrations
were asked to take a stance on the ignorant comment made by Mourdock. His
senatorial campaigning is also working avidly to gain back those women voters
that he most likely lost from the comment. However, it saddens me to think that
if it were not election season, would these comments go unnoticed? Earlier this
summer, Missouri Republican nominee, Todd Akin, made an illogical and mindless
statement that in rape, women have the power to shut their body off, and prevent pregnancy.
Therefore, if pregnancy occurs, it is usually a illegitimate rape.
And
this man was going to be nominated to run the country?!?!
Obviously, he is unaware of the way a female body works. I suggest he go back to
a public school health classroom and find out..oh wait, that's only if he allows
something other than abstinence-only sex education programs in the state. Maybe
there is a reason he thinks this way...
Either way, the amount of publicity Akin received on his idiotic comment did not
receive as much mainstream attention as Mourdock's did. Akin has since
apologized for the way his statement was interpreted (...we seem to have a trend
here?), yet has anyone gotten fired up about it?! I hope one day, there will be
people in this country paying attention to things that affect them, even when it
isn't election time. I guess we have to start somewhere though.
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