The cuts in services and the forcing of women to complete their gestation places an added burden on our society. I want the active antiabortionists to adopt these children and provide for a healthy and beneficial future. As a medical provider, I have cared for children that have been born into these circumstances.

Free speech is one thing, but making ignorant and dangerous comments that could effect the rights and health of the nation's women is absolutely unacceptable. Take a look at this link for a more detailed description of what Fischer stated: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/bryan-fischer-todd-akin-legitimate-rape-absolutely-right_n_1818285.html Allowing comments like these to flow about freely will nearly guarantee survivors being shamed, medical access being denied, and further spread misinformation throughout an already uninformed populous. If people were to hear these comments and believe them, what would happen?

With recent comments by Rep. Todd Akin and Rep. Steve King dominating the news, I have felt it necessary to unequivocally state that I Stand with Women. Rep. Tom Price, my opponent and a colleague of Representatives Akin and King, has also made comments that fly in the face of women's reproductive rights.

Todd Akin's stance on rape and the abortion issue is an affront to all women and it is beyond reason that he should serve on a science and technology committee.

If Todd Akin is being asked to leave his race, then surely Paul Ryan, his partner in changing rape laws has to go as well.

If Todd Akin is being asked to leave his race, then surely Paul Ryan, his partner in changing rape laws has to go as well.

If Todd Akin is being asked to leave his race, then surely Paul Ryan, his partner in changing rape laws has to go as well.

My US national husband, Douglas Breckenridge, has battered me after twenty years of marriage and abandoned me in India, taking my four sons, Andrew aged 16, Sean aged 14, Ethan aged 11, and Liam aged 6, to the US while our cases are pending in the Indian courts. I have no support and very little money. I need support, media, financial, legal, etc., to help reunite my children and me, and to get some justice.

We want Speaker Boehner to take action and denounce Representative Todd Akin's recent comments. In case you missed it, on television 8-19-12, Rep. Akin said that victims of "legitimate rape" hardly ever get pregnant and that "if it's legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Rep. Akin has since said he "misspoke," but he continues to believe that women should be forced to carry and give birth to babies that are the result of rape. As speaker of the House, John Boehner should denounce Akin's outrageous "legitimate rape" comments—and he also has the power remove Rep. Akin from the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

Victims of "legitimate rape" can't get pregnant because a woman's body will shut down and prevent the pregnancy. Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) actually said that–in other words, he's saying that if a woman does get pregnant, she must not have been raped. Even scarier? He's running, and leading, in the race for Missouri Senate. What he said was bad, but it was hardly a gaffe or poor choice of words. In 2011 he and Rep. Paul Ryan led the push in the House of Representatives to redefine rape as "forcible rape" to further restrict rape survivors' access to abortions. As a state senator, Akin questioned whether anti-marital rape laws would be abused by women in messy divorces Anyone who doesn't understand basic biology and tries to create more hurdles for rape survivors seeking justice doesn't belong in the United States Congress. Sign the petition calling Rep. Akin to resign right away.

74 years ago, American workers won the right to minimum wage, overtime pay, and at least one day of rest each week. But domestic workers were excluded from these basic protections because back then, the black women who cleaned, cooked, and cared for children were considered second class citizens. Our country has come a long way since 1938, but our labor laws haven't kept up. For 74 years, domestic workers have been denied the basic labor rights that so many American workers take for granted. It's time to end this shameful legacy and bring our nation's labor laws into the twenty-first century!

I am befuddled that someone in our government has made such a ridiculous claim. Rep. Akin should be nowhere near the US Government nor should he have any involvement in the decision making processes for the American people.