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To: SamAdams76
What Akin basically said was that any woman claiming her pregnancy was due to rape is lying because if it was a "legitimate" rape, her female body would have found ways to prevent the pregnancy from happening.

You are spewing absolute bovine excrement. He said NO such thing. You are totally interpreting his statement your own way. There is nothing in his words that implies what you're saying and any sensible person who isn't out to destroy him or his pro-life positions politically should know that.

There is an article out there from a doctor saying the trauma of a violent rape would make it harder for a woman's hormones to allow a pregnancy to happen. Dispute it if you want, but that is what he was talking about, not about people "lying" about being raped. That is total made-up nonsense with no plausible connection to anything Akin said at all.

41 posted on 08/20/2012 4:33:23 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: JediJones
Well here are Akins words verbatim concerning rape victims who become pregnant:

“It seems to me first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try shut that whole thing down.”

Now if you want to defend that, be my guest. But you will have about as much success as Obama did when he tried to walk back his "You didn't build that" comment.

Like I said, this is wacky Art Bell stuff and we don't need this distraction in what is the most important election season of our lives. Even if Akin merely chose his words poorly, it reinforces my contention that he should drop out and let somebody run in his place who can choose his or words more carefully. If we are going to take back the senate, we need some ready for prime time players here.

50 posted on 08/20/2012 4:45:02 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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