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Free Thinker
Registered: Nov 1999
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08-20-12 01:47 PM
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Republican Senate Nominee: Victims Of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Don’t Get 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.”
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...timate-rape.php
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RCG Trader
Registered: Dec 2009
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08-20-12 03:48 PM
Quote from Free Thinker:
TPM2012
Republican Senate Nominee: Victims Of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Don’t Get 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.”
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...timate-rape.php
This is the kind of shyt the majority whip has to face all day everyday from the Tea Party wing of the GOP. It must be crazy to be him right now.
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CaptainObvious
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08-20-12 05:22 PM
Well, this pretty much explains why we're in the shape we're in. This nitwit serves on the Committee for Science, Space, and Technology. We're done as a country!
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jem
Registered: Sep 2001
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08-20-12 05:26 PM
This is what he said.
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,”
so no thinkers headline is a lie..
Whether his statement is true or not... I have no idea.
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