Well…have been reading a bunch of stuff about the Todd Akin flap and the egregious nonsense this idiot has been spouting but the more troubling thing is that, while they try to distance the gop from what are radically stupid beliefs, the repubs are enshrining the same nonsense in the party platform…basically taking the rights of women completely away and giving them to any unborn fetus she may be carrying. Here’s the text:

“Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed,” the draft platform declares. “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.”

In these few sentences, the repubs have told every woman that gets pregnant in this country that the act of getting pregnant removes every right they have to control their own bodies and makes them less than those of the fertilized egg. There was an interesting article in Slate today that fleshed out what some of these effect could be…since the fetus has more rights than the mother, does that mean that there will criminal investigations of miscarriages? Since the fetus would now have rights that are individual to it, could a mother be prosecuted if she fell down some stairs and lost the baby? What if a women was diagnosed with cancer? Would she be required by law to not get treatment since the treatment may harm the fetus? Every woman in the US should be outraged at the repubs attempt to rescind their hard-fought rights and make them immediate second-class citizens just for getting pregnant…what a bunch of idiots…geez…