A Missouri Republican who came to the defense of Representative Todd Akin told the The New York Times last week that, while "abortion is never an option.... If God has chosen to bless this person [the rape victim] with a life, you don’t kill it."
This week's Reality Cast is dedicated to the Todd Akin blow up: What it means, what the reaction is all about, and why "rape exceptions" aren't a thing anyway.
Akin's comments about "legitimate rape" went against science and reality, but that's par for the course when it comes to an anti-choice movement that ignores the lives and feelings of women in order to paint them as reproductive objects who deserve no say in how they're used.
