Posted on 08/20/2012 7:07:41 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, sparked a furor and earned a rebuke from Mitt Romney’s campaign after saying in an interview broadcast Sunday that women’s bodies can prevent pregnancies in “a legitimate rape” and that conception is rare in such cases.
Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill, was asked in an interview on St. Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have been raped.
“It seems to me first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,” Akin said. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,” Akin said of a rape victim’s chances of becoming pregnant.
Rep. Akin will be a guest on the Charlie Brennan show at 9:20 am Monday to speak about his comments.
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Don't know. I'm not in Missouri. Maybe someone who knows will respond.
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).
Yep, the statement is dumb on so many levels that he needs to be replaced if possible.
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?
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...
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.
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.
Looks like the jerk is not dropping out.
You are aware that a great many people on the board consider such medical attention an abortion, don't you?
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!
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.
Good, he shouldn’t.
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.
They don’t call us “The Stupid Party” for nuthin!
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.
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.
That definition of yours is rape. No qualification required.
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.
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.
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