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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

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at stlouis.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: akin; akin4mccaskill; akingaffes; gaffes; legitimaterape; mccaskill; mo2012; rape; talkradio; toddakin
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To: TigerClaws

“If you make an exception for rape for abortion, wouldn’t any woman claim rape? So the exception becomes the rule.”

You make it sound as though women, by and large, have no qualms about ending the lives of their unborn children. Do you really believe that?


181 posted on 08/21/2012 2:30:18 AM PDT by juno67 (Gua)
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To: Second Amendment First
Michael Berry talks some sense on this issue. Republicans need to grow a pair and not worry about upsetting liberals. Download the MP3 file and listen. Here is the link to the file: Click HERE.

Or here: http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/podcast/single_page.html?more_page=1&podcast=michaelberry&selected_podcast=Michael_Berry_HR_4_%285p%29_1_1345507523_5247.mp3

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

182 posted on 08/21/2012 7:57:04 AM PDT by Varmint Al
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To: JediJones
And are you saying that it is an "injustice" if a woman does not abort an innocent unborn baby?

Your obsessive ideology has blinded you to the point that you cannot read. I said that his statement (implying that a woman's body rejects semen in forcible rape) places confers upon those women forcibly impregnated by that means a stigma of culpability. That would be unjust.

Please learn to read.

183 posted on 08/21/2012 8:07:48 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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