?First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,? Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. ?If it?s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.?
Akin said that even in the worst-case scenario ? when the supposed natural protections against unwanted pregnancy fail ? abortion should still not be a legal option for the rape victim.
?Let?s assume that maybe that didn?t work, or something,? Akin said. ?I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.?
A 1996 study by the American Journal of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found ?rape-related pregnancy occurs with significant frequency? and is ?a cause of many unwanted pregnancies? ? an estimated ?32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year.?
In a tweet, McCaskill said she was ?stunned? by Akin?s comments.
After the interview caused a firestorm, Akin said in a statement that he ?misspoke.?
Akin is perhaps the boldest among a crop of conservative 2012 nominees who could hamper GOP efforts to take back the Senate in the fall. Akin has called for an end to the school-lunch program and a total ban on the morning-after pill.
His claim about ?legitimate? types of rape is not completely foreign to the current Republican Congress, however. In 2011, the House GOP was forced to drop language from a bill that would have limited federal help to pay for an abortion to only victims of ?forcible rape.? Akin was a co-sponsor on the bill.
Nor is this Akin?s first time suggesting some types of rape are more worthy of protections than others. As a state legislator, Akin voted in 1991 for an anti-marital-rape law, but only after questioning whether it might be misused ?in a real messy divorce as a tool and a legal weapon to beat up on the husband,? according to a May 1 article that year in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
https://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akin-legitimate-rape.php
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I want to throw up.
Missouri must be so proud.
FFS.
This is getting scarier by the farking day.
I wonder if he (or any of the men saying this shiz) have daughters. Or would it even matter?
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Wow!!!
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I remember Palin saying she was against legal abortion even if her own daughter were raped. So no, it doesn't matter.
Unfortunately, much of the area where I grew up would probably agree with him. But as a native Missourian who has recently relocated I will say my family and I are outright embarrassed by this.
Where are your posts asking about Disney dresses for birthday parties? I much prefer those.
Geeze Heather, where do you find these things?
I'm not reading the link.
They know! And their duty as good, virginal eggs is to kung fu kick the asses of those rapist sperm. If they fail in their duty, they must want rapist sperm and deserve rapist babies! Silly eggs....
The fact that this personand I use that term loosely is even an option on the ballot pretty much disgusts me.
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Dude.
I don't know what to say...
Find them? It's all over the news. I don't look far, trust. Social conservatives are always saying something horrible about women.
If you read more articles like this, you'd stop voting Republican.
Well, all anti's think they are gynecologists.
You and I, both, know this is just nonsense. The only place that I can fathom it being acceptable is in the most Roman Catholic church in Rome or some backward church in the deepest woods where they still wear grape leaves on their loins. Seriously....
It's like reading TMZ and believing it.
wait, which part is nonsense? Your post is confusing because I'm not sure what "this" and "it" refer to.
I saw the interview itself on the news.
It was on my google homepage being reported by the New York Times.
This is not an unusual viewpoint. Look at the Republican VP candidate. Social conservatives are coming out of the woodwork by using women's bodies as a smokescreen because they, also, have nofuckingclue on how to fix the economy so they'll control what they can control.
Namely, uteruses and the women who have them.
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You know when you have a good girl friend that has diarrhea of the mouth and you choose just to ignore her and hope it goes away? Perhaps this is the stance they are taking on it. Don't go blame the GOP for something an individual says at an event. Honestly, we don't even know what he was responding to when he said it.
As a Republican (practicing Episcopalian) I am as pro choice as they come. My H is as Republican as they come (Strict Roman Catholic) and as anti choice as he can be. Even if he was running for office (which he has) he would never in a million years say something like this Whomever it is, is just trying to get your attention for one reason or another.
Dom't let him get it because he just doesn't matter. Done and done.
Rush Limbaugh called that law student a whorey little slut and demanded she release a sex tape of herself.
the Governor of PA said women need mandatory ultrasounds and if they don't like it, they should just "close their eyes."
Rick Santorum said pregnancy from rape is a gift from God to be grateful for.
was it the governor, or just a state legislator, in GA who wanted to take the word "victim" out of rape trials and make it "accuser."
Rick Santorum's buddy said women need to keep an Aspirin between the knees.
The spokesman for a NY (R) state rep suggested hurling acid at female Democratic senators.
Want me to keep going?
He matters because he's running for public office. He would have the power to introduce and vote on legislation. As a woman, his opinion matters very much. If he continues to receive GOP support in his campaign, it would only be logical to assume they support his opinion. That is something I would think about when casting my vote in November. This isn't just some random guy either, he's held office before.
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He does matter. He is running for Senate. It isn't like he's some small potatoes state legislator. This is a man who will be voting on federal legislation and major federal court appointments.
A Georgia state rep (R) compared women to cattle or pigs carrying dead fetuses.
Several states have laws on the book requiring doctors to lie to women seeking abortions about abortions causing breast cancer.
An Idaho state rep (R) Said a doctor could ascertain whether a woman got pregnant through marriage or through rape. The two are clearly mutually exclusive.
https://jezebel.com/5936083/its-not-that-shocking-that-rep-akin-thinks-women-cant-get-pregnant-from-legitimate-rape
Yeah, apparently he is getting attention because he is in the lead. How does your uterus sleep at night, OU?
Just go back to picking out baby clothes on etsy with me, ya'll.
You know what? I actually don't have to wonder.
So, are you defending his comment?
Are you agreeing that rape cannot cause pregnancy?
He must be rich, because he couldn't have gotten there on his looks!
The problem, OU, is that diarrhea of the mouth is contagious and it seems to be running rampant.
But the bigger problem is that while this douche is willing to talk about it, his friends are quietly acting against the rights of 50% of the populace.
War on women? What war on women???
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Exactly, after one a-hole speaks up they all start quoting each other as sources. Not to mention it's insulting for the actual victims of sexual assault.