"Legitimate Rape" according to US Senate candidate Rep.Todd Akin

[campylobacter]

THE STATEMENT, Sunday 19 August 2012

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"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

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[chron_job]

This hogwash has been around a while... some other examples...

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/akin-not-the-first-a-short-history-of-the-false-no-pregnancy-from-rape-theory.php

My favorite is from Stephen Freind, a state representative in Delaware, in in 1988 said “Rape, obviously, is a traumatic experience. When that traumatic experience is undergone, a woman secretes a certain secretion, which has a tendency to kill sperm.”

Such wonderfully constructed hogwash, all in service to dismissing the plight of the pregnant raped, for the holy grail of political expediency.

[campylobacter]

Last time I'd heard the "anti-rape sperm-killing vaginal voodoo" junk science argument was about that time. Unbelievable that same old superstitious notion is STILL touted as a reason to deny a rape victim an abortion.

[campylobacter]

Yes!

MISSPEAKING involves malapropisms, tongue-twisting, Freudian slips.

Congressman Akin firmly stated his viewpoint, based on an entrenched mindset that relies on an egregious misunderstanding of human biology. That's not "misspeaking"; that's called BEING WRONG.

APOLOGY involves admission of wrongdoing & a willingness to atone for it. Basically, Akin only regrets that his BS stirred up controversy, caused other GOP members to repudiate him, and likely cost him his bid for the US Senate.

[rackletang]

It's yet another time I want to laugh, but I can only be afraid that people this stupid are rising to such great heights in our governments...

[campylobacter]

This is what happens when the US reduces education spending: people can't tell superstition from scientific fact.

[hollybennett123]

This makes me want to vomit, I just can't understand how someone could be so lacking in compassion

[campylobacter]

It's such a cruel, twisted justification for a political stance; a rape victim could infer that if the rapist impregnated her, then her body betrayed her because it really didn't "shut down" the conception, and that maybe she wasn't really raped because she didn't resist/protest/fight hard enough. :(

[pitbullgirl65]

These subhumans have a history of clever remarks on rape. ."A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life."
South Dakota Senator Bill Napoli's exception to abortion. Hear that ladies? You better make sure you're an christian virgin or you are fucked.

[campylobacter]

UGH -- LITERALLY fucked. Doesn't allow for Uncle McCreepy molesting his niece for the Nth time, so she stops resisting so it'll be over soon, and then she can't finish 10th grade because of having to give birth. Or being visited by one's estranged, ex-con husband who'll leave without taking the kids' grocery money if he can have his way without a condom.

So much more nonconsensual sex occurs that's OBVIOUSLY rape which doesn't fall into their convenient, archetypal "forcible rape" bullshit category.