Todd Akin, An American Hero

Congressman Akin,  An American Hero

Congressman Akin’s statement  “the female body has ways to try to shut the whole body down” has ironically been shown to be scientifically accurate after all. This does not dismiss or condone his mis-articulation but emphasizes Hans Selye’s non-judgmental “destresse” draw tight.

Scientists at Tufts University have identified and detailed how stress hormones can “wreak havoc on the uterus and fetus”. It seems a hormone Corticotropin-releasing hormone is secreted in reaction to stress, triggering contractions.

Studies demonstrate CRH hormone is produced in the placenta and uterus as well as other areas of the body. Corticotropin releasing hormone specifically targets mast cells abundant in the uterus. Under stress CRH is released causing mast cells in the uterus to secrete substances that increases the probability of miscarriages.

These findings support the fact that disease is more biopsychosocial than physical.

Traumatic stress of a forcible rape could initiate spontaneous abortion as a homeostasis mechanism.

Stress is a French word, destresse, meaning to draw tight. The father of stress, Hans Selye defines stress as “the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed on it.”

Is a forcible rape stressful? Dr. Ann Burgess has identified multiple components of Rape Trauma Syndrome (RTS) which results from damage to brain circuitry. The syndrome  affects the emotions, behavior, cognition and family interrelationships. There are causal relationships between the stress of rape and depression, dissociation, phobias and somatoform disorders.

I am not condoning the congressman’s statements but find in his mis-articulations a bit of irony. Let me be clear. Rape is reprehensible and never legitimate. No woman who has been sexually assaulted would find comfort in the Tufts findings.

The real issue here is not about congressman Akin’s misstep in articulation. It’s all about politics.

Representative Akin became a straw man for the Democrats.

Congressman Akin clarified his position on abortion with these statements.

"As a member of Congress, I believe that working to protect the most vulnerable in our society is one of my most important responsibilities, and that includes protecting both the unborn and victims of sexual assault.  In reviewing my off-the-cuff remarks, it's clear that I misspoke in this interview and it does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped and abused every year.  Those who perpetrate these crimes are the lowest of the low in our society and their victims will have no stronger advocate in the Senate to help ensure they have the justice they deserve”.

Leftist hate response to Todd’s clarification was fast and furious. Their hate comments exposed a fundamental truth about progressives that we have known for some time. They are in bondage to absolutist ideologies and agendas that are promoted with methods just short of tyranny. Their desire is to politicize every aspect of life.

 “. . . there is no less grave a danger that the fundamental rights of the human  person will be denied and that the religious  yearning which arise in the heart of every human being will be absorbed once again into politics.”  Veritatis Splendor

The initial moral-ethical response of a righteous people was justified. However, righteous people are forgiving people and the same virtues of being righteously indignant would favor righteous forgiveness.

More light was shed regarding the character of both Republicans and Democrats than on the character of the Missouri congressman. As his misstatements were being “absorbed into politics” the hypocrisy of the liberals were highlighted. Hypocrisy because progressives have no value for a baby’s life.

Consider abortions where a baby’s limbs are pulled apart or the lungs injected with saline to suffocate the child with salt solution. If anyone desires to see the horrific realities of an abortion, of which I decline due to the graphic realities, simply go on-line. If seeing scissors inserted into a baby’s skull and the baby’s brains sucked out doesn’t bother you I’m sorry for you. May God help us.

Congressman Akin is vilified for his pro-life positions. However, consider the alternatives that our progressive friends offer. Obama has voted infanticide to be “legitimate”. He has said it is “legitimate” [in principle] to kill babies that have been born after a botched abortion. Abortion is the ultimate expression of the “female body shutting down the whole body”.

I’m writing this post asking the question, where was support for congressman Akin? What ought to have happened and the reality of what actually happened are a sad commentary on the Grand Old Party. Quoting Wittaker Chambers ,”The great failing of American conservatives is they do not retrieve their wounded”. The republicans were intimidated by “kratos” [brutish] of the democrats. Demo = people;  Crats (Krats) [ brutal sense] hence “democrats”.

For the courage of his convictions, the honorable congressman Todd Akin is my hero. He needs no defense as he has done nothing wrong. We do not punish a child for spilling milk nor do we punish a representative for mis-articulating. I believe representative Akin would be supremely qualified to be our president.

Wrongness has been exposed by the GOP for failing to support the congressman. In trying to unite the party they have divided the party. David (Psalm 133) states that where there is unity, there the Lord commands a blessing. We sacrificed a blessing by abandoning our own.

“If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted”.  [Charles Horton Cooley]

Congressman Todd Akin has given us his precise views of abortion. His views are consistent with a belief life begins at conception.  He is pro-life and his record has been consistent with pro-life principles. The response by Republican overlords to Todd’s mis-speak has been shameful.

Consider a meeting, 1994, Orlando, Florida. One hundred forty professors of religion signed the document, “Judgment Day at the White House: A Critical Declaration Exploring Moral Issues and the Political Use and Abuse of Religion”. Paragraph 4.

 “We maintain that in general there is a reasonable threshold of behavior beneath which our public leaders should not fall, because the moral character of a people is more important than the tenure of a particular political or the protection of a particular political agenda. “

  

It seems the GOP had no remembrance of the Judgment Day Declaration.

Supporting representative Akin would be reasonable. It’s clear that politics, even with Republicans, trump morality. Liberals have no problem gaining the presidency at the expense of virtue as they are enslaved by ideology. Are Republicans pursuing enslavement by agenda and moral passivity as well?

Introducing Sovereignty

Our second president, John Adams, made this profound statement, “It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue”.

Christians are taught faith and temperance are virtues.

“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue: and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love”. II Peter 1:5

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters.” [Benjamin Franklin]

“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.” [Benjamin Franklin]

“It is hopeless to offer Christianity as a vaguely idealistic aspiration of a simple and consoling kind; it is, on the contrary, a hard, tough, exacting and complex doctrine, steeped in a drastic and uncompromising realism.” [Sayers]  Creed or Chaos? P.31

Our elitist Republican friends were not looking through the lens of virtue but a political lens, ignoring conscience.

“How can they be sovereigns of the nation if they are not sovereigns of themselves”?  [Michael Novak, The Causes of Virtue”, l994]

If Republican leaders lay aside their respective consciences for political advantage they will lose all advantage. Our consciences tell us that congressman Akin is a good man, of good character and reputation, honorable and deserving of support.

“Calvin wrote four centuries ago, the turbulent state of the world deprives us of our judgment”. In such days there is inexpressible comfort in the sovereignty of God. The world has not been abandoned to old and relentless hate, nor has it been given over to the totalitarianism of man or devil. God’s counsel still stands and He still does all His pleasure. It is still true, surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand” (Isaiah 14:24) [John Murray on “The Sovereignty of God (Part II)].

Republicans

Our nation is at a crossroads. We are allowing politics to become our God. We are grabbing the reigns of politics tighter and tighter when we need to loosen.  The sphere of politics are in God’s sovereign domain. He alone discharges by appointment. God alone directs and sustains all institutions, events and happenings. He alone binds and loosens. He alone establishes and tears down. He alone sets the boundaries.

Discarding representative Akin for political expediency was immoral. It demonstrated a repudiation of God’s sovereignty in the affairs of man. Are Republican overlords so arrogant as to believe they can override the counsels of God? God honors genuineness. He desires more than a verbal assent to His sovereignty.

Consider the sovereignty of God in the 2008 election. Any number of issues should have kept Obama off the ticket. Obama sat under the ministry of Jeremiah Wright who preached hate against America for twenty years. It wasn’t until Obama took office that Michelle Obama confessed to liking America.

Obama’s family history indicated he and members of his family had a penchant for communism. Instinctively we sensed something amiss with this man and were confident voters would reject his leadership when vetted. I firmly believed Obama held to the tenets of a totalitarian system as described by Karl Dietrich Bracher.

Ø  Absolute exclusive ideology.

Ø  Legalized terror justified by chiliastic promises

Ø  Control of the state and society by means of force

Ø  Forming of a “new man”.

Ø  Negation of further conflicts

Ø  Suppression of opposition in favor of ideo-political unity and technological efficiency.

Ø  The irrational equation of oligarchial leadership of the interests of the whole.

Ø  Absolute rule instead of leadership.

Ø  Bureacratic control of economic life by means of centralized government.

Ø  Complete control of the media and all relevant instruments of coercion.

However, the man was not vetted and the more realization that Obama aspired to the above tenets the more America seemed charmed and in awe. Smitten by what I call jawbone politics. Jawbones can destroy nations. Obama, attractive, charismatic and if given a teleprompter, a decent speaker; qualities that would lead people to ignore the trite things such as world view, ideo-politcal thought, value of life, limits of government and governing skills.

If God, in His sovereignty, could move a nation to accept a socialist with totalitarian leanings, could He not sovereignly guide a political party through a misarticulation?

 “ . . . and He does according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay His hand, or say to Him, What doeth thou?” Daniel 4:35.

On acknowledging the sovereignty of God John Wesley wrote to Wilberforce,

“Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be with you.  who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary in well-doing!  Go on, in the name of God and in the power of His might, till even American slavery shall vanish away”.

Conclusion

Congressman Todd Akin was right in not stepping down from his campaign. I believe Todd to be a virtuous man with moral excellence. I am sorry for the deluge of unwarranted hate mail Todd received; however, as far as eternity  judgments Todd is the winner.

Republicans are at a crossroads. Either we believe God is in the affairs of man or man determines his own destiny. Either we are united and receive God’s blessing or divided and receive his judgments. Either we accept God’s sovereignty and proclaim as the apostle Paul, “I am sure of this . . .” or we fight God’s counsels and struggle with political realities, patching, blaming, accusing and trying to fix the irreparable.

Congressman Akin, in a moment of time, did not articulate precisely what he felt but the Republican elites articulated precisely how they felt and I’ve taken notice. Those I once respected have lost my respect. They rejected kindness and gentleness and forgiveness in favor of self serving political gain.

Thank you congressman Todd Akin for being my hero.

                                                                                                              

Ref: WebMD/how-stress-causes-miscarriage