{"id":29908,"date":"2012-08-20T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/shifting-the-overton-wiindow-on-rape.html"},"modified":"2012-08-20T09:08:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:08:42","slug":"shifting-the-overton-wiindow-on-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/shifting-the-overton-wiindow-on-rape.html","title":{"rendered":"Shifting the Overton Window on rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s all &#8220;Look at that crazy Republican extremist and his bizarro attitudes&#8221; today &#8230; and then &#8220;There&#8217;s certainly room for discussion on the matter in a democracy&#8221; tomorrow &#8230; followed by &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overton_window\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overton_window<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, yeah, I&#8217;d forgotten about Akin&#8217;s (and Paul Ryan&#8217;s) co-sponsorship role in the &#8220;forcible rape&#8221; legislation from the House GOP last year &#8212; where women would only be eligible for Medicaid (or any federally supported \/ tax credited insurance under the ACA) to have an abortion in case of rape <em>if<\/em> it was &#8220;forcible&#8221; rape. \u00a0Rape through coersion, rape through drugs, statutory rape &#8230; those wouldn&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>Seems right in line with the whole &#8220;legitimate rape&#8221; talk that the Romney\/Ryan campaign is trying to back away from. For the moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/169451\/danger-laughing-todd-akin#\">http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/169451\/danger-laughing-todd-akin#<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/169451\/danger-laughing-todd-akin#\">The Danger of Laughing At Todd Akin | The Nation<\/a><br \/>\nThe twitter-sphere went nuts yesterday after a video was posted of Missouri senate candidate, Todd Akin, expressing some jaw-dropping views on rape and abortion in an interview with local news: First &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\"><strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/fPJaYCndryR\" target=\"_new\">View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s all &#8220;Look at that crazy Republican extremist and his bizarro attitudes&#8221; today &#8230; and then &#8220;There&#8217;s certainly room for discussion on the matter in a democracy&#8221; tomorrow &#8230; followed by &#8230; (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overton_window) And, oh, yeah, I&#8217;d forgotten about Akin&#8217;s (and Paul Ryan&#8217;s) co-sponsorship role in the &#8220;forcible rape&#8221; legislation from the House GOP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/shifting-the-overton-wiindow-on-rape.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shifting the Overton Window on rape&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29917,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/an-apology-that-misses-the-point.html","url_meta":{"origin":29908,"position":0},"title":"An apology that misses the point","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Aug-12 7:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"After a few days of \"I misspoke\" shilly-shallying, Rep. 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Akin apparently isn't alone in thinking that \"secret secretions\" will keep a \"legitimate\" rape victim from getting pregnant.And the more people who say it, the more people will believe it. 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