Todd Akin's female army: 'We want to stand with him'

[Smilo]

Todd Akin was pilloried as anti-women and anti-science after his remarks on 'legitimate rape'. But a group in Missouri is standing up for a Senate candidate they say wants the best for women

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A former drug addict and alcoholic, Burrell, ........... now a student at the liberal arts Missouri Baptist University. ."

.............Asked what she thought about the science behind Akin's comments over a rape victim shutting down a potential pregnancy, Burrell said: "I'm not a scientist, but there are a lot of contradictions. There was a time in the world when scientist thought the world was flat. I don't buy into science."

Yet, against this backdrop of anger, Akin has attracted a small but determined band of female supporters who believe they can stem the tide of resentment against him. Missouri Women Standing with Todd Akin (MWSTA) began with eight women in a suburban living room a month ago, and launched last Tuesday with a rally in Chesterfield in Akin's St Louis congressional district, attended by 300 people.

At events this week, Akin's aides handed out leaflets with testimonials and photographs of nine women, including his daughter, Hannah, who is heavily involved in the campaign. Almost all gave just their first names. Two videos on the Akin site, one of which was later removed, have also appeared, as has a photograph of a score of women, dressed in white, some holding babies.

The Guardian spoke to some of the women, all volunteers, to find out why they decided to come out in support of a conservative whom the mainstream Republican party and many women in the US consider a pariah.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/28/todd-akin-missouri-women
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What the hell is wrong with these women? There is more to life than being anti-abortion.

[PDJane]

1. I'm just......gobsmacked.

I'm beginning to wonder what's in the water down there, I swear. This is ignorance on a grand scale.

[Warpy]

2. Not to them

100% of their self worth is tied up in the ability to be a brood mare to some man.

These ladies who hate women will always be with us. Our job is to keep their favorite males out of power.

[Zoeisright]

3. Self hatred and stupidity play a big part.

I wonder how many of them are physically abused too.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. so when she looks up at the stars, she imagines a black fabric with little white paint dots?

How does she think the correct shape of the world was ascertained? Science?

Sometimes it all just seems hopeless.....just too, too many holding back progress....

[CrispyQ]

5. Wow. Just wow.

"I'm not a scientist, but there are a lot of contradictions. There was a time in the world when scientist thought the world was flat. I don't buy into science."

She doesn't get what science is about at all.

[LiberalFighter]

8. What scientists back then believed in a flat earth?

I think she is confused believing that the Pope was a scientist.

[Tx4obama]

6. And TODAY Todd Akin Suggests Employers Should Be Able To Pay Women Less

DU OP here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021432163

[tanyev]

7. Ladies, make sure you stand with your legs close enough together to keep the aspirin from falling.