THE ACCUSED

I'm lost as to why anyone, especially women, would vote Republican.

They're anti-clean air and environment rules. They're against reasonable minimum wage and worker safety laws. They are against any reasonable tax increases for those who can afford it. They're against civil rights, even though they are the party that freed the slaves. They're against voters rights, and laws that make voting easier.

But wait, here's the one thing they do seem to be for:

Rape

"Concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with approximately the same frequency as snowfall in Miami"

-- Clayton Williams, 1980 - Appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush in 2004

"The facts show that people who are raped - who are truly raped - the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work and they don't get pregnant. Medical authorities agree that this is a rarity, if ever."

-- Henry Aldridge, 1995 - North Carolina State Representative

The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are one in millions and millions and millions . . . The reason is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to secrete a certain secretion that tends to kill sperm.

 -- Stephen Freind, 1988 - Pennsylvania state representative

Oh, and just so you know it isn't just a guy thing:

There was an article about an 11-year-old girl who was gang raped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute . . . her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students."

-- Kathleen Passidomo, 2011 - Florida State legislator

"Abortion is never an option . . . If God has chosen to bless this person [the rape victim) with a life, you don’t kill it."

-- Sharon Barnes, 2012 - a high-ranking Missouri Republican party member

Rape victims blessed?

Your honor, I rest my case.