Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 31, 2012
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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling Great Moments In Lady-Parts Science This week: Todd Akin's Startling Discovery One evening, Missouri Congressman Todd Akin was puzzling over the difficulty of being politically opposed to abortion rights, even in the case of rape. Woman: Todd? Todd: Not now! I'm doing SCIENCE! Suddenly, he realized his position would be more palatable if a rape victim COULD NOT BECOME PREGNANT! Todd: EUREKA! SNAP But as a lady-parts scientist, he knew he must subject his discovery to rigorous scrutiny. So he thought about it for a few minutes. Then: GOOD NEWS! Todd: I'm convinced! But first he had to make a peer-reviewed presentation to a panel of other lady-parts scientists, which he did at the club. Todd: ...so the lady's lady-system secretes a secretion and shuts itself down. Man #1: Secretion. That's a science word. Man #2: I'll buy it. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Todd Akin for his contribution to the field of lady-parts science. CENSORED ??? Hoo-hah Unmentionables Person Waiting Area The End Next, in Great Moments In Lady-Parts Science In 2010, Virginia lawmaker Bob Marshall discovers that an abortion dramatically increases a lady's risk of later having children with "handicaps." Bob: In scientific terms, I "extracted" that conclusion directly out of my "posterior."
Linguist about 12 years ago
Another example of when in doubt, pull out.
Randy B Premium Member about 12 years ago
Cognitive dissonance is a terrible thing.Especially for those who require certainty in all things.
King_Shark about 12 years ago
We don;t need no educationWe don’t need no science controlOf what children learn in the classroomsScience leave our facts alone.
steverinoCT about 12 years ago
I happen to disagree with his position, but at least Paul Ryan is consistent: if you believe life begins at conception, then, as he says, the manner of conception is irrelevant: a life is a life and should be protected. Akin and company are just trying to rationalize this.
My wife had four miscarriages. Does this make her a murderer? Am I an accessory?
Linguist about 12 years ago
Why is it that the largest and loudest proponents of " Right to Life" issues are men ? Politicians and priests, what gives them the expertise on women’s reproductive rights ?What is this deep-seated cultural fear that men have which makes them want to keep women in a subservient role ?
Gokie5 about 12 years ago
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said at a panel organized by ABC News.
braindead Premium Member about 12 years ago
Republicans are strenuously against abortion. Sometimes violently so. Sometimes murderously so (Dr Edmund Tiller).-Yet they are totally unresponsive when asked about reducing the amount of unwanted pregnancies.
jpozenel about 12 years ago
I can’t understand why people keep making fun of Republican’s ignorance of science.
Doesn’t this finally disprove those notions?
larryrhoades about 12 years ago
Don’t make a woman carry a rape spawn.Let her get it out and try to get her life together again.
MiepR about 12 years ago
A citizen, or simply a person.The problem our culture is having is an ongoing disagreement about when the developing zygote/embryo/fetus becomes a person, with all the rights accorded to a person who is a member of a community. To argue that an unborn human is a member of a community has some serious logical failings.
MiepR about 12 years ago
And boys, boys get raped too. There are good arguments for instituting the death penalty for rapists. Unfortunately it would backfire by making it even more diffcult to get convictions than it already is.
thebaldtexican about 12 years ago
Todd Akin… bought and paid for, by Claire and the DNC. They picked him, supported him, had D voters ‘crossover’ and vote for him… Todd belongs to the DNC.
pksampso about 12 years ago
@braindead08
Re unresponsiveness. Apparently they think women who don’t want to get pregnant should forego sex. It seems likely that the guys who promote this idea have ALWAYS lived without sex. Their method of birth control is their personalities.