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

[archibaldcrane]

Ruh Roh Akin:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/08...nts-poll-shows

The latest Rasmussen poll shows Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri beating Rep. Todd Akin by 10 points, 48 percent to 38 percent. Before Akin's comment on 'legitimate rape,' he was ahead.

[WahiGuard]

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.

I think you are the best really.

[quannum]

apparently they get these ideas from a dr. willke
the tubes become spastic

[Mrbeansman]

Ruh Roh Akin:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/08...nts-poll-shows
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Gonna laugh so hard if this cost the GOP the seat. Especially after seeing 10 GOP ads for every McCaskill add.

[Gokku]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/22/opinio...html?hpt=hp_c2

TL;DR:
in the vast majority of states -- 31 -- men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy. Where no law prohibits a rapist from exercising these rights.

[archibaldcrane]

And even if the law does "prohibit paternal rights from rapists" - that means you first have to get a successful rape conviction, which will happen in, what, 5% of rape cases tops?

[archibaldcrane]

And the only thing harder than getting a rape conviction, is getting a rape conviction so that the rapist won't have visitation rights of your newborn baby. I can't even imagine how easy it would be to plant reasonable suspicion in juror's minds that "she wasn't really raped, she just wants to keep this father from his son!"

[Blarg]

I think we need to implant RFID chips with pressure sensors into the vagina of every woman so that we can record and log if their sex is rape or if she is lying

[quannum]

men can choose whom they will impregnate and have a family with, without (95-97%) consequences. they don't even need to pay 50 shekels to the father of the bride.

[Plow]

http://twitter.com/ToddAkin/status/238615979117142016

Akin raised 100k yesterday.

Thousands of people stepped up and helped us raise over $100,000! The message is clear... voters should pick candidates, not party bosses.

[myreality]

http://www.opencongress.org/articles...ortion-Problem

Mitt Romney and other Republicans may be publicly distancing themselves from Rep. Todd Akin’s [R, MO] recent comment on “legitimate” rape, but most congressional Republicans are on the record supporting policies that create similar distinctions in law.
Just last year 164 Republicans and 10 Democrats co-sponsored and voted to pass a bill, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” that sought to create a new legal distinction between different types of rape. Under the bill, only victims of so-called “forcible rape” would be able to use government funds or health insurance purchased on one of the yet-to-be-established healthcare exchanges to pay for an abortion. If a rape is deemed by a judge not to be sufficiently “forcible,” the victim would have to pay out of pocket if the rape leads to pregnancy.
[Read the legislative text redefining rape for yourself at this link. Roll call information is here.]
Another bill with hundreds of Republican co-sponsors that passed the House last year, the “Protect Life Act,” would allow hospitals that receive federal funding and oppose abortions to refuse to provide abortion services, even in cases where the life of a pregnant woman is at risk. Just like the forcible rape bill, Rep. Akin is an original co-sponsor of this bill, as is Rep. Paul Ryan and many other prominent Republican members of Congress.

[Sera]

31 states... -- men who father through rape are able to assert the same custody and visitation rights to their children that other fathers enjoy. Where no law prohibits a rapist from exercising these rights.

lol, america hates women so much

And the only thing harder than getting a rape conviction, is getting a rape conviction so that the rapist won't have visitation rights of your newborn baby. I can't even imagine how easy it would be to plant reasonable suspicion in juror's minds that "she wasn't really raped, she just wants to keep this father from his son!"

oh god yes, let the no limit slutshameathon begin

Akin raised 100k yesterday.

lol. of course he did. ugh. fools and their money.

[kuronosan]

I love how America criticizes Muslim treatment of women but treats its own women like shit.

[ronin sparthos]

I love how America criticizes Muslim treatment of women but treats its own women like shit.

The Bible tells me so.

[Milkster]

[hey]

No, it prevents you from getting pregnant.

So god supports contraception.

[Sera]

Politics hates women. Science loves women.

[Karbuncle]

lol, america hates women so much

If it makes you feel any better, The vast majority if intelligent Americans all facepalm/Facedesk at the stupidity of shit like this. I know I wanted to hop in a jet and move to ... IDK, Anywhere but here, after reading enough BG threads a day on how dumb this country is.

But yaaah, Idiocy isn't Nation specific... Just like bigotry and stereotyping, Its possible everywhere.

[Helm]

Sometimes I think the country has gone full retard.

[Kerberoz]