It's Not Just Akin's Opinion, It Is the GOP's Platform

It's important to note that Todd Akin's brutally stupid comments about rape and pregnancy are not merely his personal opinions, or that of his religion or his district. Banning all abortions even in cases of rape and incest is the official platform of the Republican Party. It's so much part of their ideology and so important to them that the GOP has listed amending the Constitution to fit Akin's comments as a priority for the nation. 

The official platform of the GOP is exactly what Akin professed.  He isn't the exception or a lone nut case.  In fact Republicans want to amend the Constitution to make Akin's views the law of the land. 

*Cake and Eat it Too Update:

Going up on CNN this morning, RNC communications director Sean Spicer said the Party's endorsement of a ban on all abortions for their 2012 Tampa Convention does not mean it opposes exceptions to rape or incest.  He said the platform is simply an indication that the GOP is "pro-life."  Adding anything else to it is false he claimed. 

Spicer also said the platform item should not be read as a piece of legislation either.  As Pema Levy makes note, such a suggestion from Spicer that the platform doesn't necessarily oppose exceptions is brand spanking new.  Even the former head of the GOP, Michael Steele, said as recently as yesterday the platform adopted this week for the convention does not make exceptions for rape or incest. 

Here's the language of the platform:  "Faithful to the 'self-evident' truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed."  We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."

Yeah I don't know how you can read that and not conclude the GOP supports a Constitutional Amendment to ban abortion.  As far as exceptions, it states clearly that the "right to life cannot be infringed."