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Akin Tries To Explain “Legitimate Rape” Comment, Speak With KMOX’s Charlie Brennan (9:20 Central)
KMOX ^ | August 19, 2012

Posted on 08/20/2012 7:07:41 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

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To: mrs9x
Can the Missouri GOP unilaterally decide to dump him from the ticket, or is the only option for him to resign?

Don't know. I'm not in Missouri. Maybe someone who knows will respond.

41 posted on 08/20/2012 7:54:01 AM PDT by Will88
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To: newzjunkey

What he probably meant to say was exactly what you have pointed out, which is that the pro-abortionists use rape as their big argument, but in practice, the vast, overwhelming majority of pregnancies that are aborted do not come from forcible rape.

But anybody who is that poorly spoken and thoughtless doesn’t belong in politics, and the GOP should replace him immediately with another candidate (if they have one).


42 posted on 08/20/2012 7:56:03 AM PDT by livius
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To: newzjunkey
If he had to go there, he could've used the legal definition "forcible rape" but he did NOT have to go there except to commit political suicide and reelect McCaskill.

Yep, the statement is dumb on so many levels that he needs to be replaced if possible.

43 posted on 08/20/2012 7:57:23 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Uncle Chip
Not magical but physical/hormonal from the stress that results from it, according to intelligent callers to the Charlie Brennan show.

So if you were on a jury in a rape case and the victim was pregnant as a result of the rape, would you accept the Defense making an argument that her pregnancy was evidence that the sex was actually consensual?

44 posted on 08/20/2012 7:59:03 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: servantboy777

Yeah I read about that as well :( surly the GOP can find someone with a functioning brain??
its not that hard to beat the rats, but you cant keep hitting yourself in the head with a sledgehammer and expect to win...


45 posted on 08/20/2012 7:59:22 AM PDT by wyowolf
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To: sometime lurker

It is not “magic”. The trauma and stress of the violence and the woman’s struggle makes the act of intercourse less likely to result in fertilization. Promt reporting followed by medical attention will also reduce the chance of implantation of a fertilized egg. It does happen though and the point is this is the only crime where the perp son or daughter is required to pay the ultimate price (death) while the criminal get a few years in jail.


46 posted on 08/20/2012 7:59:22 AM PDT by muskah
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To: Uncle Chip
Not magical but physical/hormonal from the stress that results from it, according to intelligent callers to the Charlie Brennan show.

Sorry, I, and most people, will believe the scientific evidence rather than the "intelligent callers" you cite. I never heard anything about this "natural defense" in medical school. Based on studies, this is nonsense. Repeating it will only make people look more ridiculous.

47 posted on 08/20/2012 8:01:36 AM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: Second Amendment First; All

Looks like the jerk is not dropping out.


48 posted on 08/20/2012 8:01:36 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: muskah
Promt reporting followed by medical attention will also reduce the chance of implantation of a fertilized egg.

You are aware that a great many people on the board consider such medical attention an abortion, don't you?

49 posted on 08/20/2012 8:02:50 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: backwoods-engineer

I say Akin did nothing wrong.


I know nothing about Akins but going by what I’ve read,which admittedly isn’t alot, but it sounds to me his biggest mistake was explaining his position clearly...?

Hang em high!

Meanwhile, back at the Oval Office Obama has set the bar so low that Jimmy Carter for President in 2013 would be an improvement!


50 posted on 08/20/2012 8:07:24 AM PDT by Leep (I'm a Chic-Fil--A-merican)
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To: Will88
I'm not in Missouri. Maybe someone who knows will respond.

The RINO machine in Missouri never liked Brunner, Steelman, or Akin. Early in the campaign oldtime RINOs wanted all three to just step aside for their chosen candidate.

This contrived flare-up could have something to do with their belief that their candidate could still get into the race for Senator. John Danforth is part of this group.

51 posted on 08/20/2012 8:08:05 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: rwfromkansas

Good, he shouldn’t.


52 posted on 08/20/2012 8:09:09 AM PDT by beandog (All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
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To: Second Amendment First
It's obvious Akin it out of touch and has to go.

He's 65, in his 'world' there is or was ONE kind of rape: forcible rape.

Younger generations have been taught there's "date rape" which can be a case of two drunks who engage in sex. Obviously Akin isn't talking about that, nor is he talking about "statutory rape."

Brennan says Akin's begged off on the interview.

53 posted on 08/20/2012 8:10:12 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Election night is 77 days away.)
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To: Second Amendment First

They don’t call us “The Stupid Party” for nuthin!


54 posted on 08/20/2012 8:11:43 AM PDT by Haiku Guy ("The problem with Internet Quotes is that you never know if they are real" -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Strategerist

Good Question. But the Defense would still have to prove that the pregnancy came from the rape and that it was not part of the 5% exception.


55 posted on 08/20/2012 8:13:51 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Strategerist
That is true, but emergency medical treatment following a criminal attack that inadvertently results in the failure to implant is not an abortion in my mind. It is similar to a traffic accident where medical treatment results in the death of an unborn child.
56 posted on 08/20/2012 8:14:05 AM PDT by muskah
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To: muskah
The trauma and stress of the violence and the woman’s struggle makes the act of intercourse less likely to result in fertilization.

So far, I have seen no scientific evidence produced on this or other Akin threads of this medically ridiculous statement. If you have a study in a peer reviewed journal, cite it. There is research out there in a peer reviewed journal, cited by the CDC, that the conception rate is about 5%, and that an estimated 32,000 pregnancies annually result from rape.

Further, there is plenty of evidence from war zones, where incontestably forcible rapes result in pregnancy. For the Rwandan ethnic cleansing, the estimate was 2000 to 5000 children born of rape.

57 posted on 08/20/2012 8:14:05 AM PDT by sometime lurker
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To: kcvl

That definition of yours is rape. No qualification required.


58 posted on 08/20/2012 8:16:18 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: txrefugee
Why can’t Republicans do the same in this case and put in Palin’s better choice that this nitwit?

Palin's choice finished 3rd. If anything, the GOPe choice should be put in because he finished 2nd. However, even though Steelman finished 3rd, she is a woman and she might be a better choice.

59 posted on 08/20/2012 8:16:52 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: newzjunkey

The reality is that after this jerk’s comments, Steelman rather than Brunner may be the only candidate who could win against McCaskill.

Akin may have just handed the Senate back to the Dems, since I don’t see Brunner stepping aside as well.


60 posted on 08/20/2012 8:18:41 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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