New anti-Akin ads feature rape survivors
Facing a tough challenge from the staunchly conservative Todd Akin, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill today released three new ads that go for the jugular: The ads feature three female survivors of sexual assault speaking directly into the camera against Akin's remarks on rape and abortion.
"I'm a Republican and a pro-life mother, and a rape survivor," says a woman identified as Diana in one ad. "In the hospital I was offered emergency contraception. Because of my personal beliefs, I declined. Here's what else I believe: no woman should be denied that choice. What Todd Akin said is offensive, but what he believes is worse. He would criminalize emergency contraception. I've never voted for Claire McCaskill, but because of Todd Akin, I will now."
The two other ads feature similar personal testimonials.
McCaskill is one of the most vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election this year, but Akin imperiled his campaign in August when he suggested in a local interview that women are unlikely to become pregnant if they are victims of "legitimate rape."
McCaskill has interview with KCMO in August when asked about the use of the morning-after pill in cases of rape or incest, Akin said, "the morning-after pill is a form of abortion [and] I think we just shouldn't have abortion in this country."
McCaskill's harsh ads shouldn't be too surprising. Even after Akin's controversial remarks, polling shows McCaskill has only a slight lead in the race. This week, the Democrat came under fire after the Associated Press reported that businesses linked to her husband received millions in federal subsidies while McCaskill was in office.
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The statesman whose name you've so shamelessly appropriated didn't say "Give me liberty for men only, or death!"
Do you have a sister, mother or daughter? What do they think of your troglodytic views?
If that's not a hypocritical Pro-Abort shill.
In Germany the Nazis had the "right" to kill people they felt were of no use to the state and Jews, Slavs, Gypsies.
No in America we have another holocaust against the most innocent and helpless for convenience.
Rapes, Incest and the rest of the BS of the left's excuses to kill kids is only a small percentage of the abortions committed in this country.
Most are performem on perfectly healthy women an babies because of their own consenting sexual immorality and for convenience.
The left is as sick and inhuman as the Nazis were.
Hey GOP, if you see stopping a women's right to choose as a God inspired quest, kindly remember some of Christ's greatest teachings:
Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? (The point here is we should not judge another)
When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." (Who among the GOP is without sin such that they can decide how are women should be treated or punished)