Should Akin Resign For Rape Remark?
U.S. Senator Scott Brown and his challenger Elizabeth Warren both condemned Akin's comments this morning.
Senator Scott Brown has called on Missouri Representative Todd Akin to resign after Akin made comments Sunday that implied women who are raped could shut down their reproductive organs. “As a husband and father of two young women, I found Todd Akin’s comments about women and rape outrageous, inappropriate and wrong,” Brown, a fellow Republican, said in a statement. “There is no place in our public discourse for this type of offensive thinking. Not only should he apologize, but I believe Rep. Akin’s statement was so far out of bounds that he should resign the nomination for US Senate in Missouri.” Brown may be the first prominent Republican to call for Akin’s resignation from the race, according to the Boston Globe. Both Brown and his …
Casey Meserve
1:20 pm on Friday, August 31, 2012
I just checked the U.S. Census's statistics on abortion rates. In 2007, the latest data I found, there were 1,210,000 abortions performed that year. Definitely not millions daily. The most abortions were performed in the states with the largest populations: California and Texas. In Mass. in 2008, 18.3 pregnancies for every 1,000 women were terminated. Here's the link http://www.census.gov/… more ›