Jeff Danziger for October 26, 2012

100 years ago women (and enlightened men) were struggling for women to have the right to vote. When this country began women were chattel in a completely male dominated society. If you read the history you’ll see that women were spat upon, imprisoned, cursed, and beaten in order to achieve the 19th amendment. This is not an opinion. It is my opinion however that today’s Republican male hierarchy would be the ones spitting on and beating the Suffragettes if it were 1919, fighting their desire for equal rights by any means possible, with any lie or mad statement they could come up with. How any woman can belong to this Republican party or vote so blantantly against her own self interest as a human being is an interesting phenomenon, but there it is.

Having known two women who were raped, I find this cartoon very painful. Having known those two women, one a friend of my mother’s another a friend of mine, I find Akin’s and Murdouch’s comments vile and insulting.And I’m told Akin is on the science committee in congress.if it isn’t a war on women, it certainly is a police action against their choices and civil rights.It is attitudes like this that have caused me to vote the Democrat ticket since John Warner retired. If people vote for legislation reflecting the attitudes depicted here, it is bad for our women and for our country.sadly,C.

This is what happens when you leave the gates of the asylum unlocked! All the crazies come out…

I’ve heard it sad that what is worse than being loved or hated is disregarded. The Republicans neither respect women nor are they waging a war, they just treat women like they don’t matter.

Or you’uns willl git left behind when th’ Rapture comes. ( Hallelujah! )

Here we go again folks…

“Oh yeah? Oh, YEAH! Well…well…well…well. Biden and Obama say stupid things, TOO! So, nyah, nyah, nyah, so THERE!”

Except Repub comments on rape aren’t just stupid, they’re morally reprehensible.

And are you EVER gonna respond when people answer your posts?

And never forget folks, Moloch, I-I mean MOURDOCK was the ONLY Senate Candidate endorsed by Mitt Romney.

In 2010, the Tea-Party Repubs ran on a promise of job creation. When they actually got in what they voted for was a long slate of anit-choice legistlation, and how can you talk about jobs at a time like this?

If the R’s get the White House, look for more of that on STEROIDS

Was it a legitimate rape, or a forcible one? We have to make these distinctions, you know, to come up with your punishment for allowing it to happen.

I bet you enjoy taking every turn you can,, Just wait for the conservatives to get full control. You won’t have to make any turns to get raped.

I have a job too, chuckles…but I still manage to answer my responses…not all of them, all the time, but I don’t ignore them UNTIL I get called out. ( I notice you still haven’t responded to any of the others who answered you. )

Now…did you actually HEAR Biden laughing at the people killed in Benghazi…or did you only hear ABOUT it?

And nice try at at running away from the subject…sorry, won’t work

And if I want a straw man, I’ll go watch the Wizard of Oz. No one is saying the Repubs said Rape should not be investigated except YOU. Tell O great Poo-Bah…what is it that makes YOUR interpretationf of the cartoon the accurate one?

What Mourdock DID say was that if rape results in conception, it was Meant by God to happen. Todd Akin DID make a comment about legitimate rape, and the Republican platform does NOT allow for abortions in the case of rape and incest.

Why do YOU find an accustion by a far right rag all the evidence you need to judge someone guilty?

How-go-zit really doesn’t get it, C.He is simply a one line no wonder…with a conservative amount of grey matter.

Scott, you seem to be in denial of the Republican party platform. It includes ending Roe v. Wade and stopping all abortions. So it is not just 2 members of the Republican Party. IT IS AT LEAST 51% OF THOSE THAT CONTROL THE PARTY. (Otherwise, this wouldn’t be in their platform, right?.)

Women are more than 50% of our population, these Republican morons should put two and two together. Oh, wait, using Mitt math, that would be 26.

All rapists, and those who declare women responsible, or that those women are merely receiving a “gift from god”, should receive a free vasectomy: with a .45 APC.

What does abortion have to do with the horrible economy?

If the right gets their way they will redefine rape so that it will virtually no longer exist. Their insulting belief that a ‘forcibly’ raped woman cannot get pregnant is the first step. ‘If she gets pregnant, she must have wanted it’, is their way of thinking. It’s a disgrace to the USA. How can anyone support these haters?

The economy is improving. Is Rape?

Yes, this is a stupid cartoon…..and Murdock is a dumbass or is being paid by the Democratic Party to hurt Romney’s chances of election……hmmmmmmmmmmm

Think of a young woman you love. A wife, daughter, grandchild, child Got one? Now supposed that precious person got brutally raped. Now suppose that for some reason it would be extremely dangerous to her health to carry that baby. Now suppose she tried to get an abortion, or if she is very young, Someone who didn’t want to lose her tried to get an abortion for her. Now, if it is up to Ryan, she ends up in prison along with violent offenders, addicts, and other serious bad people. Can you imagine her afraid, pregnant, worried that she might die, Is the principal of all life is sacred for fetuses, but not for this girl that could be as young as 12, or a young wife, or the mother of several other children . Why is HER LIFE not also as sacred? Seriously, I can think of one young woman who has been told it would be dangerous for her to have another child. and I have grand-daughters,if that something like that could happen to. I will fight to keep well loved women and girls from this kind of situation. And a raped child can conceive as young as 10 .

““Like Benghazi?”—————“Sorry, not sure what comment this is reference to…”

I believe it’s a reference to your comment “It’s a distraction.”

It’s happening already. That’s why we’re seeing these political statements. It has already happened. Just listen to what Akin and his ilk are saying.

Hey, I’m just saying that’s what I believe gricks’ comment was a reference to.

ConservGov started this off with “What does this have to do with the…economy?” The real answer is “Nothing. It’s a cartoon about a different issue.” If YOU claim it’s just a “distraction”, then it’s fair game for gricks to say “Benghazi is a distraction.” Different people give different weight to different issues. One thing you can be certain of is that the abortion question is ALWAYS going to be divisive, and arouse passionate arguments from both sides.

There is also, of course, more than one race being decided next week. If Romney is not particularly running on the abortion issue, many Senate and House candidates are. The “No abortions, no exceptions” plank is in the Party Platform. Do you expect they’ll forget about it, if they keep the House and gain the Senate, regardless of who’s in the White House? If only for that reason, I don’t want ANY Republican elected to ANY office.

me too, neighbor.respects.C.

Remember ladies, we pass these laws for your own good.

I researched this also and the “democrats” opposed to the amendment were from the South, they were once Dixiecrats and now they’ve gone over to the Republican side.

Charlie555, please give a demonstration on diapering, or teaching math, to a fertilized ovum.

The teapublicans did run on jobs, but to make Obama fail, they did nothing on jobs. The anti-choice legislation got about 100 laws passed. I used to be a republican before the tea party took it over.

Suddenly it became very big social government wanting to act as judge and jury on anyone who didn’t live exactly up to their standards.and if that standard calls for the fetus to live, and it doesn’t extend that right to the mother, it is a crummy standard to support.

people forgot what Reagan and Bush wrought..

sometimes after I make a post here, I get a warning to “block address” makes me think someone who doesn’t like me is trying to use malwear on me. Maybe I’m just being paranoid tho.

And it looks like they’ll continue to control the House no matter who wins the presidency.

Abortion kills a potential human being. Potential because it can die in the womb because of illness of fetus or mother. The mother may consume food/water toxic from unregulated industries upwind/upstream from them. The mother may, like my mother did, take a medication that causes irreparable damage to the fetus, killing it, or making dependent on society for the rest of its life, my sister is 53 with the mind of a 15 month child since she was 15 month. Once born, it gets worseA mentally unbalanced parent kills a human being, even one that was wanted and anticipated, due to depression, taking the wrong meds, hopelessness in the face of no money and no job etc.Malnutrition kills a human being.Lack of preventative health care kills a human being.Lack of an education kills a human being who, with no way to get out of poverty, chooses drugs and/or gangs to live.I wish every child conceived to be born and reach full potential in a society ready and able to accept them with love and compassion. Each child is our next Edison, Da Vinci, Ford,… and an abortion takes the gifts that may have been and throws it away unopened.I also want every child currently alive to reach their full potential for the same reason. From 1 day to 100 years, we all have potential.I hate this topic, it is impossible to resolve in the shadow of the many things we need to do first. And no one has answered my repeated questions…What penalties will be levied on mothers, doctors, and fathers participating in an abortion?Sadly,C.