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

[Sera]

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...imate-rape.php

Videos in the link.

AUGUST 19, 2012

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.”

In a tweet, McCaskill said she was “stunned” by Akin’s comments.

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.

Do you believe in magic, in a young girl's twat

[Talint]

I just read this story. Was debating on whether or not to start a new topic.

[Athas]

The PollTracker Average shows Akin leading McCaskill by a margin of 49.7 percent to 41.3 percent.

What.

[Sera]

Yeah. YEAH. That guy is WINNING.

[Lucavi]

This guy is amazing. I mean, lets just keep shitting on biology and science. Who the fuck needs it?

Not this guy and not the people who voted for him.

[Sera]

Clip

[Lucavi]

Can I rape you, Sera? Its not like I like you or anything, and its not like it'll result in a kid or anything.

[Tajin]

Where the fuck do these people come from ?

[Tyche]

Kentucky elected this guy to the Kentucky general assembly. Dropped this line last week during a meeting with the joint commission on education...

"The theory of evolution is a theory, and essentially the theory of evolution is not science — Darwin made it up," Waide said. "My objection is they should ensure whatever scientific material is being put forth as a standard should at least stand up to scientific method. Under the most rudimentary, basic scientific examination, the theory of evolution has never stood up to scientific scrutiny."

[hey]

Why are people who don't know what a scientific theory is even allowed to talk about science?

[Tajin]

Kentucky elected this guy to the Kentucky general assembly. Dropped this line last week during a meeting with the joint commission on education...

"The theory of evolution is a theory, and essentially the theory of evolution is not science — Darwin made it up," Waide said. "My objection is they should ensure whatever scientific material is being put forth as a standard should at least stand up to scientific method. Under the most rudimentary, basic scientific examination, the theory of evolution has never stood up to scientific scrutiny."

woooooooooooaaaaah

[Lucavi]

Because it wins them elections from white people.

[Cantih]

I can only hope that this year's election sees the left take it, and the right implodes quickly (a slow decline would be nearly as bad as none), and we stop seeing people like this anywhere near positions that have any kind of influence.

I mean, FUCK.
Just what the fuck.

[Sera]

Can I rape you, Sera? Its not like I like you or anything, and its not like it'll result in a kid or anything.

LOL i c wut u did thar

[Blarg]

The truth about pregnancy rape is probably somewhere in the middle of this guys opinion and science

[Cleverness]

Well when most of your voters are apparently morons who believe anything you say(Obama is a terrorist muslim, legit rape doesn't result in pregnancy, Darwin made it up, etc)it seems to be the way to go. Who cares about things like the truth and facts.

Seriously though if this guy wins I might shed a tear for the citizens he's responsible for cause this is all kinds of wrong.

[miokomioko]

Darwin. made. it. up.

[brozy]

Oh wow...and just when i thought i had no faith in humanity left this just put it well into the negative

[Churchill]

Because it wins them elections from white people.

Let's be honest, white people may make up a majority of dumb republican voters but when it comes to evolution, science, religion, nignogs are just as retarded.

[Correction]

Let the backpedaling begin:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.co...ent-i-misspoke

AND LEST WE FORGET

Committee assignments
Committee on Science, Space and Technology

Republicans, people. Republicans.