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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Please cite your studies --
That’s not the reason the term ‘date rape’ was coined, and the guy doesn’t have a legitimate point—talking about legitimacy.
The GOP needs to step in here, get him out, and get someone in who can help the party.
Oh I agree with you, but believe me there are plenty of people on this board that consider a fertilized egg that has yet to implant in the uterus a "baby" and they'd make such medical treatment illegal if they could.
You’re right. While this politician’s words are clumsy, there is truth to what he’s said.
According to this site — http://www.physiciansforlife.org/content/view/492/26/ — “one of the most important reasons why a rape victim rarely gets pregnant [is] ... psychic trauma.”
“The GOP needs to step in here, get him out, and get someone in who can help the party.”
The old way of handling this is to promise him to be ambassador to switzerland to get him to resign.
Akin may have just handed the Senate back to the Dems, since I don’t see Brunner stepping aside as well.
Yep. It's the Democrat Steel Phalanx versus the Republic Cat Herd, once again.
If Akin stays in there and loses, I'll never bother voting for the GOP at the national level again. I tire of watching those bozo clowns cough up the ball on the one yard line time after time after time after time after time after time..., and then asking me to believe it's "just another unfortunate turn of luck".
Sarah Palin called it, back in the primary. So did Claire McCaskill...
Legally Torricelli withdrew from the race, he wasn't removed. Now there is no doubt is withdrawl was done with a whole lot of pressure from the Democrats in Jersey but the fact is he wasn't kicked off the ballot. Unless Akin voluntarily withdraws then I don't think there is a whole lot the Missouri GOP can do. I don't see him doing that on his own.
How many times do liberal women say things about men that are objectionable, without nary an outcry? That said, it is a silly remark, and should have little bearing on anything. Reminds me of the comment(s) about women in foxholes etc. Women/libs get so upset about silly words, but have no problem with molesters and killers and rapists in office, if they are Democrat.
Now I know I’m on the right side, since it’s the opposite of your opinion.
Did this study distinguish between legitimate rapes and reported rapes that were really consensual sex???
The emergency contraception pill should prevent the release of an unfertilized egg. There is about a six day window of fertility, five days of pre-ovulation sperm survival, and only one day of post-ovulation ovum survival.
It’s been speculated that the ECP could make the uterine lining less hospitable to the embryo, but I’m doubtful. The ECP in the US is a high progestin pill (synthetic progesterone) and there is a natural rise in progesterone after ovulation to preserve the uterine lining. Established oral contraceptive use may well thin the lining.
Akin said something stupid and the only honorable, honest thing to do is admit it. “I meant to say forcible rape. I’m sorry. I was indulging in wishful thinking as well. Of course women can become pregnant as a result of rape. Again, I’m sorry for saying something ignorant.”
How unusual that would be.
No they haven’t. I work in the medical field and I can tell you there’s not a single legitimate source that will back up his quackery. It has no basis in scientific fact, studies have repeatedly shown that women can and do get pregnant as a consequence of rape. What he said is so backwards and completely illogical that it boggles the mind at the sort of stupidity that can emerge from someone’s mouth.
No, I said that it wouldn’t protect against pregnancy, and the body wouldn’t distinguish “evil rapist sperm” from “loving husband sperm”. I notice for someone demanding studies, you have cited none.
The study that has been cited on this thread repeatedly is the 1996 study by Holmes et al, showing a pregnancy rate of approximately 5%, with an estimated 32,000 rape related pregnancies annually. As I’ve pointed out, there’s also evidence from the Rwandan ethnic cleansing, and probably the Bosnian as well.
Challenge to all of you. . .what would you have said in response to the very direction question about abortion in cases of rape? Can you think of one thing that he could have said that the MSM would not have jumped on with both feet?
That makes absolutely no sense.
SOME women lie and everyone knows it so don't make it sound like all of these women are virtuous creatures who aren't as wild (or wilder) than the guys.
If anyone in the Republican party owes Akin a big 'thank you' then it's Kevin Yoder. Without Akin's verbal screw-up, Yoder's skinny-dipping would be frontpage news.
The guy will be gone, regardless of the validity of the point, it was delivered so clumbsily no one is going to touch it.. His comments will be a distraction, and no one is going to go out and defend it. The more its talked about the longer it goes on, the longer it goes on the more it hurts.
“I say Akin did nothing wrong.”
You’re not one of those who believe that women secrete some magic spermicidal fluid during a rape are you?
By agreeing with Akin, you sound just as ignorant as he does.
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