Do Republicans think it is okay for their wives to be raped?

[LiberalFighter]

And they would be totally okay with having their wives not have an abortion?

[Skittles]

1. it has never been about what republicans want for them and theirs

it's all about denying rights to "THOSE OTHER PEOPLE"

[janlyn]

2. No No No

You don't get it!! just like before abortions were legal the only ones who could get a safer abortion WERE the rich assholes wives and daughters...

Can't have THAT scandal getting out!!!

[my2sense]

3. Of course

not. They'll send their wives, daughters, ..... to another country or some upscale medical spa type thingie to have a "procedure"......

[Smilo]

4. I would say

yes on the first one and yes on the second.

Wives are chattel after all and any unwanted pregnancies can be spirited away if you have enough money and connections.

Rape and abortion are for the common folk.

[arcane1]

5. I'd love to hear that asked as a Kitty Dukakis-style debate question

Though it will never happen

[Atman]

6. It would save them money on condoms and pills!

It's a win-win for them!

[Cleita]

7. I remember some stories of a Republican wife stating when she

divorced him that he regularly sodomized her and often when she was asleep. Don't remember which one it is, but a lot of religious nuts and Republicans have a weird notion of what a wife's duties are when in comes to marital relations. It seems forcing your wife to have sex with you is not considered rape by them.

[arcane1]

8. Dr. W. David Hager was one of them

He was a gynecologist who claims he often "missed" when vaginally raping his wife in her sleep

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. Yep. Quite disgusting.

I am convinced that some of these guys are homosexuals in the closet who really hate women. They get married for cover but they really don't like women.

Anybody else remember Newt saying that women can't stay in a combat trench for a month, because they get "infections"?

Newt has been married to three different grown women, has presumably had intercourse with them, and he doesn't know what a menstrual period is???

[polichick]

9. As long as they're the rapists.

[meow2u3]

11. "As long as they're the rapists" is right

You took the words right off my keyboard.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Only legitimately.

[HopeHoops]

13. To be fair, it's probably the only way their wives would get to have sex.

It's still rape. There are no qualifiers other than situational (date rape for example) - but it's ALL rape. If a woman isn't willing and accepting, it's rape. Why the FUCK can't they get that through their thick skulls?

[yellowcanine]

14. The sleeper effect here is with daughters, not wives.

Men are generally not fearful for their wives - it is their daughters they are fearful for, because they feel helpless to protect them when they leave home. Speaking as a father of two daughters, I can tell you that I have a gut level reaction to Akin's crap and his defenders. Hard to measure how that plays out with male voters nation wide, but I am convinced it will. Ryan is tied to this crap no matter how hard he tries to weasel out of it. He cosponsored legislation with Akin redefining rape as "forcible" rape.

[Xyzse]

15. Sometimes it is the only way they can keep them.

Forcing a child on someone to keep a situation where the woman is in need and unable to support themselves alone.

Wouldn't be surprised if some of them did that to their girlfriends or someone else so that they could have them.

Sometimes Republicans really are like Taliban in regards to their view on women. We are appalled that young women are forced to marry their rapists, but the way they are talking nowadays you can see how close they are to that.

It is disgusting.

[Coyotl]

16. Better question: Do they think a wife MUST submit to her husband?

as a precept of their religion, for example!

[bklyncowgirl]

17. Only if they get to watch :)

Seriously, there are some sick people out there.

[classof56]

18. I'm guessing yes on both counts.

Probably would find it a noble thing, raising a rapist's child.

Sick idiots!