“Legitimate Rape” has now entered the Republican lexicon and Republican science contends that a woman’s reproductive system has a built-in defense mechanism for preventing rape-induced pregnancy.  You have all heard endless reports and comments about Rep. Todd Aikin’s (R-MO) absolutely idiotic remarks in that regard so I will not repeat them here. But consider this: Basically he said that if a woman gets raped it’s her fault if she becomes pregnant because her biological rape resistance failed.  This is a scary reminder of the days when there was a bias against women which argued that if a woman got raped it was her own fault because she provoked it.  Unfortunately, this brouhaha over Aikin’s stupid choice of words obscured the real issue, abortion.  How one stands on abortion is based strictly on religious beliefs and has no place in political discourse. Our laws should not be based on some people’s interpretations of Christian doctrine.  These are the same people who clamor for laws to prohibit the establishment of Muslim Sharia law in America as if there were a remote possibility of that happening.  Despite all the flack directed at Aikin, (including from Mitt Romney) guess what’s in the Republican platform?  A Constitutional Amendment barring all abortions including rape and incest.