The Ultimate Male Arrogance

"I believe this is a mistake.  There are people of goodwill on both sides of the abortion issue and we need to send a message to voters that there is room in the Republican Party for differing perspectives....  The Republican Party would be well served to recognize in its platform that you can be pro-choice and still be a good Republican."  Scott Brown, Massachusetts Republican

What has been revealed about the Republican Party in the United States lately may not be a "war on women" exactly; it may more accurately simply be a gender-based assault on cerebral and social functioning, a kind of antediluvian reaction to one of society's more intractable and polarizing convictions revolving around women's right to control the issue of their own bodies.

But as far as positively influencing American women as potential voters for the Republican Party may be concerned, it's a step backwards.  The revelation that the platform of the Republican Party is a denial of the right of women to access abortion, terminating an unwanted pregnancy, to the extent that all abortions would be forbidden by law, inclusive of those caused by rape, has done the Republicans no good at all during this election season.

It's not all that far to November that women will conveniently overlook the asinine statement by Republican Todd Akin that a "forcible" rape would not result in a pregnancy because women are capable of biologically controlling whether or not they will become pregnant; the body kicking in to reject a pregnancy in the instance of a "forcible" rape.  No one has explained the provenance of an "unforcible"' rape.

And while there have been rumours that she-wolves (bitches) in the wild are capable of re-absorbing a foetus during times of food shortages, never has medical science come up with the whopper that human females are capable of restraining normal biological function to rejection of the formation of those differentiated cells in comprising a foetus in the wake of a rape.

Most helpfully for their own political cause, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pointed out that Akin was "far from alone" in his redefining of rape and his crusade to deny access to health care through the restriction of federally funded abortion procedures to women made victims of "forcible" rape.

It hasn't helped Mitt Romney's presidential prospects to have been ambushed by this revelation that his newly-chosen vice-presidential running mate, a financial whizz at a time when the U.S. really needs some economic intelligence to grapple with its looming deficit and growing debt, alongside the very possible slide from feeble recovery back into serious recession, to the realization that Paul Ryan co-sponsored Akin's rape bill.

"I'm proud of my pro-life record.  But Mitt Romney is the top of the ticket and Mitt Romney will be president and he will set the policy of the Romney administration", asserted Paul Ryan, referring to Mitt Romney's more relaxed acceptance of a woman's right to choose abortion rather than carry an unwanted pregnancy.

What this controversy has revealed in stark blazing colours is that the Republican Party's "no exceptions" position on abortion has represented their position since 2000.  It has rarely been openly discussed as it is now being spoken about, previously.  Republicans are just now awakening to the possibility that they may be acutely damaged by this publicly-perceived "war on women".

It is a well-earned fear.