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What, you didn't think Akin was some sort of aberration, did you? The conservative mind is a depraved and diseased mind. Now if only Republicans were more honest about their beliefs like Akin is, Republicans would never be elected again (outside of all of the backwards southern red states) and our country would quickly unscrew itself and maybe we could heal as a nation.
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Oh you think Akin is an isolated incident, Doc Savage fan? Here's even more evidence, you republican shill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xf383_QhU
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/steve-king-statutory-rape.php?ref=fpb
http://veracitystew.com/2012/08/21/idaho-republican-wonders-if-women-even-know-what-rape-is/
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/...efense-of-todd-akins-legitimate-rape-comments
http://www.akin.org/still-standing
Edit2: Oh my "Favorite" one:
http://articles.kwch.com/2011-05-25/rights-groups_29584145
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...f-the-false-no-pregnancy-from-rape-theory.php
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Thread title is a lie...why do the mods here tolerate this kind of garbage from such a dispicable hack? What gives?
Oh you think Akin is an isolated incident, Doc Savage fan? Here's even more evidence, you republican shill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xf383_QhU
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/steve-king-statutory-rape.php?ref=fpb
http://veracitystew.com/2012/08/21/idaho-republican-wonders-if-women-even-know-what-rape-is/
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/...efense-of-todd-akins-legitimate-rape-comments
http://www.akin.org/still-standing
Edit2: Oh my "Favorite" one:
http://articles.kwch.com/2011-05-25/rights-groups_29584145
_______________________________________The House was discussing insurance coverage for abortions. The point was made that proposed coverage restrictions did not make exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. DeGraaf suggested that women purchase separate abortion-only policies. Bollier questioned him about the likelihood of women doing this.
Rep. Pete DeGraaf said, "We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life?"
Bollier asked him, "And so women need to plan ahead for issues that they have no control over with pregnancy?"
DeGraaf then responded, "I have a spare tire on my car." "I also have life insurance," he added. "I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for."
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...f-the-false-no-pregnancy-from-rape-theory.php
Rep. Todd Akin is far from the only conservative to suggest women rarely get pregnant from rape. He’s not even the first lawmaker to make the assertion (which flies in the face of medical evidence).
A search of news archives by TPM shows a short history of Republican politicians espousing the idea of a biological defense against pregnancy in cases of rape, though there’s little consistency in their explanations of how such a mechanism works.
In 1988, Stephen Freind, a state representative in Pennsylvania, defended his no-exceptions anti-abortion stance — as Akin was doing Sunday — by claiming that it was virtually impossible for a woman who is raped to become pregnant.
“The odds are one in millions and millions and millions,” Freind said in a debate in March of that year. “And there is a physical reason for that.”
Freind said that women possess a “certain secretion” that kills sperm.
“Rape, obviously, is a traumatic experience. When that traumatic experience is undergone, a woman secretes a certain secretion, which has a tendency to kill sperm.”
Freind promised to provide scientific documentation of his theory and told a cheering crowd later that month, “If you’re expecting me to back off, the answer is no.”
Seven years later, a state legislator in North Carolina championed the same theory. Henry Aldridge, a Republican state representative, argued for the elimination of a public fund to help poor women pay for abortions by using a similar argument.
“The facts show that people who are raped — who are truly raped — the juices don’t flow, the body functions don’t work and they don’t get pregnant,” Aldridge told the House Appropriations Committee. “Medical authorities agree that this is a rarity, if ever.”
Aldridge was addressing the committee to apologize for “earlier remarks implying that victims of rape or incest are sexually promiscuous,” according to an Associated Press report at the time.
Aldridge, like Freind, did not back down. “To get pregnant, it takes a little cooperation. And there ain’t much cooperation in a rape,” he said.
In 1998, Republican Arkansas state Rep. Fay Boozman botched his own Senate bid against Sen. Blanche Lincoln when he said at a rally that pregnancy resulting from rape was rare. He denied having used the phrase “God’s little shield,” according to the Washington Post.
The next year, Mike Huckabee, then governor of Arkansas, appointed his good friend Boozman to lead the state’s Health Department. Upon becoming health director, Boozman apologized for the comments, saying they were “not statistically based.”
Huckabee, who opposes abortion even in cases of rape, endorsed Akin in the Missouri primary.
Akin, who earlier this month won the Republican Senate nomination in Missouri, said he “misspoke” in a follow-up statement, but he did not disavow the substance of his comments except to acknowledge that rape can in fact result in pregnancy.
One abortion-rights activist said publicizing the false theory can cause even further trauma to rape victims.
“The first time I heard it or saw anything about it it was in a chat room,” Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, told TPM. O’Neill recalled that a woman in the chat room said she “struggled to deal with the shame of her sexual assault because she had heard that she was not supposed to get pregnant and that her body sort of had betrayed her.”
“It was a number of years ago,” O’Neill said, “But I just remember thinking, ‘Oh my God that poor woman, where did she hear this?’”
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