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Republican Senate Nominee: Victims Of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Don’t Get Pregnant
Source: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...imate-rape.phpRepublican Senate Nominee: Victims Of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Don’t Get Pregnant
Evan McMorris-Santoro August 19, 2012, 2:06 PM
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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.”
Video, clipped by the Democratic tracking outfit American Bridge (the full interview is below):
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.
The PollTracker Average shows Akin leading McCaskill by a margin of 49.7 percent to 41.3 percent.
Below are Akin’s comments in their full context (abortion question begins around the four-minute mark):
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Holy shit. Fuck this guy.
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I can't tell if hatred or ignorance. I don't know which is worse at this point the fact that some people actually might believe this, and the fact that some people don't care.
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what a prime tosser
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So if these natural defenses do kick in the rapist may not need to be punished? Also this guy might be confusing Women with female ducks which would be funny if this wasn't so scary.
He claims he misspoke - yet insists that the unborn be carried to term. In his world, women are the equivalent of Borg maturation chambers.
I'm willing to bet money this man doesn't understand a fucking thing from doctors.
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Ill hunt this fucker down in the night and shove a jellyfish up his ass.
Out of all the things I've heard people say they would shove up an ass, that's the best.
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...nothing really new or insightful to add...just that people this twisted / ignorant, and their supporters, need a healthy and carefully regulated dose of concentrated physical violence...mostly directed on their genitals.
There are so many things wrong with this, but one thing that really bothers me is the idea of "legitimate rape" which generally means rape where the perpetrator used violence. No kind of rape is any less "legitimate" but I think that it's quite a widespread idea that rape where drink or drugs are concerned is at least partly the fault of the victim. For example this article I read earlier.
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Turns out I'd have lost that money. Apparently there is a group of hack doctors called "physicians for life" peddling this crap. I think I need to drink myself into a stupor now.
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Yup, right on the money. In his "apology" he equaled his legitimate rape bs with violent/forcible rape (like there is any other kind): http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/arc...-rape-comments
Also one has to be impressed with his ability to use an apology to equal the rape victims he is apologizing to with al-qaida terrorists if they do seek out an abortion. Double down on the crazy mysoginy; GOP 2012
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Here at least We shall be free
rape is a state crime and in some states the % is estimated to be 5% (a pro-life stat) of all victims become pregnant, but these states are based off all rape victims and in some states men outnumber women by 2 to 1 as victims.
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A lot of the hand-wringing by liberals about stuff like this sort of bugs me, actually. It seems like in all the fuss over comments like this made by rightwingers, it tends to be taken for granted that denying the right to abortion in cases of rape is something especially bad, much worse than denying it in cases where the woman willingly chose to have sex.
He looks like he would fit in a Viiieet-nam veeterhun movie. Such a...brain dead.. face.
