I tried not to get involved in the is-Paul-Ryan-a-scary-social-conservative debate, but this is just too much. Even if you're pro-life, I can't imagine voting for someone this stupid. Apparently all those HOORS who get pregnant from rape weren't really raped because if they'd been really raped, they wouldn't have gotten pregnant.
Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.
“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.”
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.
The PollTracker Average shows Akin leading McCaskill by a margin of 49.7 percent to 41.3 percent.
Post by decemberwedding07 on Aug 19, 2012 15:00:42 GMT -5
WTMF?! I have heard (maybe from an article posted here?) that some studies have indicated that women who are ovulating have heightened senses of danger and are less likely to want to do things like walk to their cars alone after dark, but that's hardly a fool-proof way of preventing pregnancy by rape. What an asshole.
The PollTracker Average shows Akin leading McCaskill by a margin of 49.7 percent to 41.3 percent.
:-( omg. that breaks my heart. her campaign team needs to step it up, stat. I refuse to believe that the majority of people can get behind someone like him.
I seem to remember Jesse Helms--or someone similarly appalling-- saying something similar back the day. It got the usual 30 seconds of attention before people moved on. This special brand of douchebaggery never seems to "stick" to these assholes.
I think I know where this comes from. A few years back, there was a study that said a woman is more likely to conceive when she has an orgasm during sex than when she doesn't. I remember thinking at the time that some dbag was going to tie this to rape, and use this study as a defense to rape, claiming that pregnancy proved sex was consensual.
I think I know where this comes from. A few years back, there was a study that said a woman is more likely to conceive when she has an orgasm during sex than when she doesn't. I remember thinking at the time that some dbag was going to tie this to rape, and use this study as a defense to rape, claiming that pregnancy proved sex was consensual.
During one of my IUIs the NP told me I had an "angry cervix" so now I make sure to do accupuncture beforehand so I can be more relaxed. I'm sure being relaxed helps the chances but obviously it doesn't follow that sperm can't meet the egg at all. What an ass.
I think I know where this comes from. A few years back, there was a study that said a woman is more likely to conceive when she has an orgasm during sex than when she doesn't. I remember thinking at the time that some dbag was going to tie this to rape, and use this study as a defense to rape, claiming that pregnancy proved sex was consensual.