You can't get pregnant from "legitimate rape" -- oh, okay. Thanks Akin!

**Stumblingdrunk** · 2012-08-20 23:50

Originally Posted by archibaldcrane

Holy fuck

I was waiting for that. Nothing he said was too far from other things said by the majority of the GOP outside of a presidential election cycle.

**Stumblingdrunk** · 2012-08-20 23:52

The "gotcha question" response is genuinely rage inducing.

**archibaldcrane** · 2012-08-21 00:01

Hey Akin, I gotcha! I exposed you as knowing nothing about reproduction, or rape.

GOTCHA!

**Plow** · 2012-08-21 00:13

romney actually gave a fairly respectable response btw

I can't find a whole exact quote but this has the key parts:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1810811.html

"Congressman’s Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong," he told National Review Online. “Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive."

He added that his view was "entirely different" and that Akin's statement was "entirely without merit and and he should correct it."

romney hasn't personally said the guy should step down afaik, but apparently ryan did actually call him and ask him to

**Seanr** · 2012-08-21 00:51

Now I'm just imagining Paul Ryan as Bane on the plane and Todd Akin as the dude who sacrificed hisself for the cause.

"no brother, they'll be expecting one of us"

**Apelila** · 2012-08-21 01:29

So I'm reading a couple place that Akin and Ryan co-sponsored a bill on Rape previously. Any truth to that? Because if so, I'm looking forward to the Democrats going after that link by the throat.

**Rhyis.** · 2012-08-21 01:34

Originally Posted by Apelila

I'm looking forward to the Democrats going after that link by the throat.

Rape choke style as it were.

**Apelila** · 2012-08-21 02:36

Its ok though, the republicans magic hoo hoo wont generate any obama hate babies.

**Plow** · 2012-08-21 04:46

Originally Posted by Apelila

So I'm reading a couple place that Akin and Ryan co-sponsored a bill on Rape previously. Any truth to that? Because if so, I'm looking forward to the Democrats going after that link by the throat.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-1...112hr212ih.pdf

no exceptions for rape at all, of course

**Bregor** · 2012-08-21 06:27

One thing I didn't see yet skimming the thread, CNN and Maddow were saying that there's this deadline of 6pm tonight that Akin has to decide whether to drop out of the race or not. Turns out Missouri law requires you withdraw 11 weeks before Election Day. Pretty bad timing on his part:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-w...rape-comments/

**Yugl** · 2012-08-21 06:37

Not sure if you're suggesting the deadline has passed with your second sentence, but if so:

The decision has some urgency. Missouri election law allows candidates to withdraw 11 weeks before Election Day. That means the deadline to exit the Nov. 6 election is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Otherwise, a court order would be needed to remove a name from the ballot.

If not, there are still legal measures to remove his name.

**Bregor** · 2012-08-21 07:42

Originally Posted by Yugl

Not sure if you're suggesting the deadline has passed with your second sentence, but if so:

If not, there are still legal measures to remove his name.

Not what I was trying to imply. I just meant that the news media kept talking about a deadline without explaining entirely what the deadline was, so I googled and quickly found it and decided to post it here.

More to the point, this whole thing is disgusting. Pretty sure my days as a Will McAvoy Republican are drawing to a close, and I'll have to switch parties entirely. It started in earnest with the Foster Freiss birth control stupidity, and this might be the coup de grace.

**ringthree** · 2012-08-21 08:02

Originally Posted by hey

So 2 out of every 100 rapists get convicted of a felony, but don't spend even a single day in jail?

"Suspended sentence! They went free that very day!"

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**ringthree** · 2012-08-21 08:08

Originally Posted by Plow

romney actually gave a fairly respectable response btw

I can't find a whole exact quote but this has the key parts:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1810811.html

romney hasn't personally said the guy should step down afaik, but apparently ryan did actually call him and ask him to

Wow, that would be totally cool of Romney and Ryan... you know, if they didn't have a 0% voting record on anything related to women's rights.

**Lucavi** · 2012-08-21 09:21

You can't follow a strict interpretation of God's word and be for women's rights.

They're doing God's work. God hates women if they aren't breeding. The bible says so.

**Thiefami** · 2012-08-21 09:41

At least he started it out with "from what I understand" lol. 60% of the time legitimate rape fails to impregnate every time.

**Kalmado** · 2012-08-21 09:47

My wife and I heard this while in the car yesterday. We just stopped talking, looked at each other, and had nothing to say other than "wtf". Take away his party affiliation and just say this guy is a terrible person and should not be allowed in any seat of power.

**Stumblingdrunk** · 2012-08-21 10:18

The very worst part of this is that it allows the GOP an opportunity to claim to distance themselves from someone who holds these views that generally mesh with republican policy regarding both rape and abortion. The very idea of "forcible rape vs. other rapes certainly didn't come from the democrats. Bear in mind that this guy in the quote is a very popular republican

The man trying to provide Rep. Todd Akin the softest possible landing after the congressman’s foolish comments about pregnancy and rape was former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a strong supporter of Akin during his run to represent Missouri in the U.S. Senate.

In the furor over Akin’s remarks and increasing pressure for him to drop out of his race against Sen. Claire McCaskill, Huckabee used his syndicated radio program Monday to give the embattled candidate a safe venue to express remorse and his determination to remain in the race. Huckabee also took the opportunity to cast the best possible light on Akin’s awkward position. The former Arkansas governor and onetime GOP presidential contender suggested a couple of cases in which he suggested that rapes, though “horrible tragedies,” had produced admirable human beings.

“Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of a forcible rape,” Huckabee said of the late American gospel singer. One-time presidential candidate Huckabee added: “I used to work for James Robison back in the 1970s, he leads a large Christian organization. He, himself, was the result of a forcible rape. And so I know it happens, and yet even from those horrible, horrible tragedies of rape, which are inexcusable and indefensible, life has come and sometimes, you know, those people are able to do extraordinary things.”

Huckabee left the seminary in 1976 to become director of communications for the fiery televangelist Robison, who once declared he was “sick and tired of hearing about all of the radicals and the perverts and the liberals and the leftists and the communists coming out of the closet.” Robison called on “God’s people to come out of the closet” and re-take control of America.

After leaving the Robison organization, Huckabee went on to his own career in broadcasting and then politics. He continues on as a radio host and with a weekend program on Fox News. Huckabee had previously helped Missouri congressman Akin kick off his campaign and also cut ads for the candidate. In one, Huckabee declared that conservative candidates like Akin “honoring our creator” would “help restore our God-given liberty.”

Robison once told the Christian Broadcasting Network how he was the “product of rape.”

“My mother was a practical nurse and was raped by the alcoholic son of the elderly man she cared for,” Robison said. “It was a forced -- I don't think we would call it violent -- but he forced his affections on her, and at age 40 she conceived me.”

Robison told interviewer Scott Ross how he found out about his conception.

“She told me when I was a teenager, but she had also told this to a pastor and his wife who tried to adopt me when I was a baby,” he said. “They kept me for five years. I thought they were my parents, but I understood that I also had a mother who came to see me occasionally, so it was confusing to a child, but I didn’t need to understand. She took me from them when I was 5.”

Robison said he later had a violent confrontation with his birth father but that his adoptive parents helped him discover God and Jesus Christ.

“So here I sit as a product of rape, but I had an encounter with God,” Robison said. “The principles came into my life, not to make me perfect, but to got me in the pursuit of applying the principles. Look at the offspring: 11 grandchildren, three children, their spouses, and they’re happy. It works! The world needs to see something that works.”

After several years out of the limelight, Robison convened a meeting with other Christian leaders in 2010 to look for ways to oust Obama and end what he called the “assault on faith, family and freedom.”

Akin did not respond directly to the thoughts about Robison, as Huckabee quickly turned the conversation to ask the congressman whether his misstatements about rape and pregnancy would be fatal to his campaign.

Akin said he was not the only candidate ever to “suffer from foot-in-mouth disease,” adding: “The good people of Missouri nominated me and I’m not a quitter. My belief is we are going to take this thing forward and, by the grace of God, we are going to win this race.”

**Stumblingdrunk** · 2012-08-21 10:20

Some of my best friends are forcible rape babies

**kuronosan** · 2012-08-21 10:21

I'm going to go rape someone right now and, in my defense, claim that the victim cannot charge me for rape because the baby might turn out to be the next Etta James.

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