To Wifeoffarmer, "the right to life should always come before the right to choose?" What kind of crap is that? The right to life in America is freedom which under the constitution we have the right of religious freedom which states that we have the right to CHOOSE what religion we wish to follow, or if we'd like, we can CHOOSE to not follow any religion at all. The beauty of this country is that it was founded on the idea that people could be free to believe in their own thoughts and ideas. You really need to open your mind and remember that people have different thoughts and ideas than your own. Just because you feel as though it is wrong does not make it right for you to tell the 15 year old girl who was raped whether it be statutory or forcible (Who the F**k cares which?! she was raped!) that she can't abort the baby and will now have to be reminded for the rest of her life that terrible memory and also will now have to be forced to be an adult at an early age and most likely give up on her dreams. It's her choice! Not yours! Mind your own business, stay out of peoples lives, the truth of the matter is, they don't give a shit what you have to say.

Correction. I meant to say the right to life should ALWAYS come before the right to choose

Personally, I don't care if Mr. Akin doesn't understand biology. I find it to be both horrific and outrageous that killing a child is ever an option. Call it a fetus if it makes you feel better, it still isn't right! Thank God someone is speaking up for ALL the unborn. I have a granddaughter who, by today's standards, is a product of rape and should have been murdered by no fault of her own. We raised her mother with the belief that life starts at conception. She is the greatest gift we could have ever been given. Her mother, who is one of 9 children ,feels the same way, the right to life should never come before a right to choose. As a woman and mother I would love an opportunity to shake Mr. Akins hand.

Why couldn't he just say that one crime does not excuse another? Why does the murder of a child have to follow rape?

Note: The author, John F. Ince of this article is a former classmate of Mitt Romney at Harvard Business School and former reporter at Fortune Magazine. He is the author of Mitt Romney: King of Bain and the Man Who Wants To Be President.

There are at least 12 reasons why Mitt Romney would not make a good president. Here's John F. Ince's list. What's yours?

1 • Romney neither understands nor represents most Americans. The man lacks empathy for those who have not had all the benefits he has had in life. His presidency would be deeply polarizing. One can easily image his election as president would generate new waves of social unrest and violence. He clearly represents the 1% and the 99% will not tolerate policies that exacerbate the growing divisions between rich and poor.

2 • Romney's job creation claims are inflated and unrealistic. Mitt Romney's professional career was based on a very specific task: buying and selling companies for profit. He wants people to think that this qualifies him to be a job creator. With the exception of his investment in Staples and a few other early venture capital deals, his jobs creation claims are mostly chimera. He takes credit for creating jobs, when he was only an investor in those companies, not an executive. In practice, he predominantly used his power as an investor to eliminate jobs and shift other jobs overseas, all in the interest of making profits.

3 • Romney does not have a sound fiscal plan. Extrapolating from the projections Romney has offered for increased defense spending and tax cuts, his policies would blow a hole in the Federal budget, further eroding investors faith in the government's ability to get its fiscal house in order.

4 • Romney has little respect for the natural environment, nor a commitment to protect and preserve it for future generations.

5 • Romney has lived a cloistered and privileged life and today has a very narrow view of the world.

6 • Romney's worldview is rooted in intolerance.

7 • Romney does not fully understand the transformative power of technological change.
8 • Romney is temperamentally unfit for the presidency.
9 • Romney lacks direct foreign policy experience.

10 • Romney lacks integrity and honesty.

11 • Romney has no commitment to women or equal rights. There is little in his public statements or record to suggest he feels any responsibility for advancing the interests of women and minorities.

12 • Romney lacks sufficient charisma and personality to be a strong leader.

Note: The author, John F. Ince of this article is a former classmate of Mitt Romney at Harvard Business School and former reporter at Fortune Magazine. He is the author of Mitt Romney: King of Bain and the Man Who Wants To Be President.

The fact that Romney/Ryan purposely distort Obama's $716B cut to medicare shows me just how dishonest they are. Especially since the cut is being spent on medical care, it doesn't reduce benefits to seniors. Compare that to Ryan's proposal that cuts the same amount and the money is used to make up the difference created by tax breaks for the very rich. Why shouldn't the very rich be paying the same tax rate I am? Why should capital gains be taxed differently? Money is money. The interest on my savings, which the bank uses to invest, is taxed the same as my income. That money is still being invested.

"The $716 billion in cuts do not affect benefits for today's seniors. Instead, they reduce provider reimbursements and are intended to curb waste, fraud and abuse." ----- And I'll bet you ten thousand dollars, Ryan / Romney did NOT mention that little bit of information to the crowd.....

“When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure that we’re, you know – that he’s just being America’s accountant and trying to be responsible… I mean this is the same guy who voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that costs as much as my health care bill – but wasn’t paid for,” Obama said on April 15, 2011.

In 2008, Ryan released his "Roadmap for America's Future," which described his sweeping vision for how to gut America's main entitlement programs of Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. The plan made him a hero among conservative circles, and Ryan eventually remade it as his "Path to Prosperity" plan, which President Barack Obama and Democrats have criticized for embracing tax cuts for the very rich while slashing government programs that help the poor. (It wasn't just Democrats who criticized Ryan. While running for president, Newt Gingrich called Ryan's plan "right wing social engineering," which probably helped kill Gingrich's bid.)
President Obama actually helped raise Ryan's profile on the right by critiquing the Congressman's budget, and just last year, Ryan was reportedly mulling his own run for president.

Critics have called Ryan’s 2011 proposal the “end of Medicare as we know it,” and that’s true. Until now, Medicare has operated as a “fee-for-service” system; under Ryan’s plan, it would operate more like a voucher system, although Ryan and his aides have resisted this term. Medicare would cease to pay for health services directly, instead operating as a board that approves a menu of health plans for public sale and doles out predetermined lumps of money to people enrolled in Medicare, to help them buy those plans.
After its release, the president called Ryan’s plan “fairly radical” and posited that it would “change our social compact in a pretty fundamental way,” ABC’s David Kerley reported.

“I guess you could call that bold. I would call it short-sighted,” Obama told 500 Facebook employees in April 2011.

I wonder if he could shut his body down if a big fat slug of a man raped him. Just "shut your body down" Aiken. I have a lot more words for you, but it wouldn't be very lady like of me.

ABORTION:

Ignorance re: family planning and poor mores, reported by World Health Organization registered 46 million abortions worldwide, 20 million unsafe.

Mortality in developed countries, with legalization (0.2-1.2 deaths per 100,000 abortions). Nations who ban abortions: 330 deaths per 100,000 abortions). The high mortality is due to "unsafe" abortions. World Health Organization defines: "unsafe abortion" as a procedure for terminating a pregnancy , performed by a person lacking the necessary skills or in an environment lacking medical standards.
The USA spends $13 billion/year for unwanted pregnancies (James Trussell, PhD, a Princeton U. Population Research. This does not take into account the crime, drugs, suicides, social disruption, unemplyment, suicide etc, that these children experience, for being unwanted, and born from such mothers, bodes poorly in their outcome as members of society.

An estimated 150 million women in developing countries want to delay or stop childbearing, but cannot afford or are unable to find family planning services. Alan Guttmacher Institute reports 46 million reported abortions worldwide. Real numbers are close to 100,000 abortions.

Safe Motherhood Initiative, launched by the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the Population Council provide contraceptive and family planning aid, comprehensive education, information on sex communicable diseases and prevention.

To bring into the world a child where no food, shelter of love is there, and where what little is there is taken from the other siblings that are already here is IMMORAL.

countries like Japan and Sweden, where sex education is in the curriculum, have a much lower incidence of communicable diseases, unwed mothers, rapes, when compared to th USA, where sex education is not prevalent.

refer : WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CHART See how nations where abortion is illegal, have orders of magnitude larger numbers of maternal and child deaths.

WWW.lifewatchgroup.org ( see Wealth, Hunger and Peace PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS)
(Printed with Permission from W.H.O.)

That was certainly was an offensive and ignorant statement that he made and then apologized for and Akin should resign from the election as most Republicans are calling for him to do.

Who does he think he is...Vice-President?

Why is a man who last week nobody outside of Missouri ever heard of held to a higher standard
than the sitting VP?
When in China...exactly one year ago... Joe Biden said to the Chinese regarding their policy of pressuring women to have abortions,
"Your policy has been one which I fully understand -- I'm not second-guessing -- of one child per family"

Never heard about that quote? The media probably had something better to do that day unlike this week when all eyes are on Missouri instead of the "misery index" of 16 trillion in debt and record unemployment.

Hey, he's just the Vice-President representing the United States making an official moral statement to China which will be the next largest economy and new superpower of the 21st Century thanks to our President's ruinous economic leadership.

Speaking of offensive behavior towards women, isn't Bill Clinton headlining the DNC Convention at Bank of America stadium this month but somehow all is forgiven with him?

Wow..having that (D) or (R) after your name has an almost mystical effect on the moral barometer of some people and their sense of proportion, priorities, history and hypocrisy.

This gentleman has not yet got the full impact of his own words. It has been compared to vp biden's chains goofup, im thinking...which was a totally different type of ignorance? This gentleman has gone and done a global feminine offensive screwup and... recovery, be it dismal at best is a yawning, hard to watch scramble to "stay in th race" effort. Look for other employment. Does he live nearby? 'Hope not, but there's some property he's developed by Hwy 141 roadway in West St. Louis County... "he's voted for funds to enhance this roadway and with this act measurably enhanced his nearby property value" ...and altho petty, he's not even FROM St. Louis, but New York!!
What does this say about his degree, his "Masters of Divinity?" ...this gentleman should know more about women's biological processes. What a goofup. Want him representing?? probably NOT.

Lots of false outrage , which is expected. Forcible rape as opposed to statutory rape , which is consenual, but underage. That one statement put your column worht yof a highschool newspaper. Forcible rape is a legal term. This will be forgotten in a few days. Given the publics attention span, but nice try.

You have a child who gets the death penalty because his/her daddy is a criminal and mommy has the freedom to trash him/her, and so it is the incinerator for this unwanted piece of evidence

Aikin's remarks are not the kind of words one would expect from a candidate hoping to represent ALL the people - including women! Having co-sponsored Aikin's bill, the choice of Ryan as VP candidate, might well have doomed the GOP in the November. Maybe if that's the best we can do, we deserve to lose.