Title: GOP dark alley
Published: Ventura County Reporter
Date: Aug. 30, 2012
About this cartoon: The 2012 Republican National Convention, like all such gatherings, has an official party platform that is little noticed. Not this year. Todd Akin, a candidaye for the Senate from Missouri, caused a firestorm by saying that women could not get pregnant from a "legitimate rape" beacuse the female body had some way of preventing comnception in such cases, he said. He also went on the declare his opposition to abortion in cases of rape... and incest... and everything else, all of which caused people to become aware that the Republican party platform contained the very same concepts regarding abortion. This played into the hands of Democrats who were accusing the GOP, with some effect, of a "war on women."