Amanda Marcotte
Clip Created Oct 1, 2012

Todd Akin Denounces Abortion Providers

Clipped from:House Session
Jan 22, 2008

Todd Akin calls abortion providers "terrorists" and claims they perform abortions on women who aren't even pregnant.

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00:00:00 THAT AMERICANS HAVE STOOD FOR AND FOUGHT FOR.
00:00:04 NOW, SOME PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT NOW WE ARE ENGAGED IN A GREAT WAR, A WAR AGAINST TERRORISTS, SHOULD THAT SURPRISE US?
00:00:12 WELL, THINK ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT.
00:00:14 WHAT IS IT THAT TERRORISTS BELIEVE?
00:00:17 TERRORISTS BELIEVE HEY IT'S OK TO BLOW UP A FEW PEOPLE TO MAKE A POLITICAL STATEMENT.
00:00:21 WHAT DO WE BELIEVE?
00:00:23 WE BELIEVE RIGHT TO LIFE IS A FUNDAMENTAL GOD GIVEN RIGHT.
00:00:26 WE ARE COMPLETELY ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE PAGE OF THE TERRORISTS.
00:00:30 THE TERRORIST IS A TERRORIST.
00:00:31 AND WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:00:32 IT MEANS HE WANTS TO COMPEL YOU INTO DOING SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU'RE SO AFRAID OF HIM.
00:00:38 THAT'S NOT VERY SIMILAR, IS IT, TO WHAT WE BELIEVE THAT GOD GIVES PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO LIFE AND THE RIGHT TO LIBERTY.
00:00:45 THE RIGHT TO LIBERTY IS TO BE ABLE TO FOLLOW YOUR OWN CONSCIENCE WITHOUT BEING TERRORIZED BY SOME OPPONENT.
00:00:52 SO IT IS NO BIG SURPRISE THAT WE FIGHT THE TERRORIST.
00:00:56 BECAUSE THEY ARE FUNDAMENTALLY UN-AMERICAN.
00:00:58 AND YET WE HAVE TERRORISTS IN OUR OWN CULTURE CALLED ABORTIONISTS.
00:01:02 ONE OF THE GOOD PIECES OF NEWS WHY WE ARE WINNING THIS WAR IS BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH HEARTLESS DOCTORS BEING GRADUATED FROM MEDICAL SCHOOLS.
00:01:10 THERE IS A REAL SHORTAGE OF ABORTIONISTS WHO WANTS TO BE AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE FOOD CHAIN OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION?
00:01:18 AND WHAT SORT OF PLACES DO THESE BOTTOM OF THE FOOD CHAIN DOCTORS WORK IN?
00:01:23 PLACES THAT ARE REALLY A PIT.
00:01:25 YOU FIND THAT ALONG WITH THE CULTURE OF DEATH GO ALL KINDS OF OTHER LAW BREAKING, NOT FOLLOWING GOOD SANITARY PROCEDURE, GIVING ABORTIONS TO WOMEN WHO ARE NOT ACTUALLY PREGNANT, CHEATING ON TAXES.
00:01:39 ALL THESE KINDS OF THINGS, MISUSE OF ANESTHETICS SO PEOPLE DIE OR ALMOST DIE.
00:01:45 ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE COMMON PRACTICE.
00:01:48 AND ALL THAT INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FOR AMERICA.
00:01:51 AND THE DAY IS COMING WHEN THIS PUBLIC DISCUSSION WILL CONTINUE AND AMERICA WILL SAY WE ARE TIRED OF ABORTION.
00:02:01 BECAUSE IT'S SO FUNDAMENTALLY UN-AMERICAN.
00:02:04 AND THIS LIKE A BAD NIGHTMARE WILL PASS AWAY AND THERE WILL BE A DAY JUST AS THERE IS TODAY WHERE PEOPLE SAY WHO WOULD BE EVER SUPPORT SLAVERY IN THE FUTURE THERE WILL BE A DAY WHEN MEN WILL SAY, WHO WOULD EVER HAVE SUPPORTED SOMETHING SO UN-AMERICAN AS ABORTION?
00:02:24 I'M SO THANKFUL FOR THE GENTLELADY FOR HER LEADERSHIP AND FOR ALLOWING US TO HAVE A TIME TO ENGAGE IN THIS PUBLIC DISCUSSION.
00:02:32 SOMETHING THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE DONE BY POLITICAL TRICKS BUT BY THE CONSCIENCE OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, RAISED TO THE POINT WHERE THEY SAY, NO MORE.
00:02:41 THE BAD DREAM IS OVER.
00:02:42 WE ARE GOING TO ONCE AGAIN HONOR WHAT AMERICANS HAVE ALWAYS STOOD FOR, THE GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
00:02:51 GOD BLESS YOU.
00:02:52 I WOULD YIELD BACK MY TIME.
00:02:56 MISS BACKMANN: THANK YOU, MR.
00:02:58 AKIN.
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