GOP Senate Nominee: Victims of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Rarely Get Pregnant
- Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:15pm by
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin (Mo.), seen here celebrating his win in the Senate primary race Aug. 7, 2012, said in an interview he doesn't support abortion even in cases of rape because victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant. (AP)
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri, said he doesn’t support abortion even in cases of rape because victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant.
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape is] really rare,” Akin, who’s running to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill, told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
He continued, “But let‘s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something — you know, I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”
A 1996 study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology said approximately 32,000 pregnancies result from rape each year in the United States and that about 5 percent of rape victims are impregnated.
McCaskill tweeted Sunday afternoon that she was outraged by Akin’s comment, posting: “As a woman & former prosecutor who handled 100s of rape cases,I‘m stunned by Rep Akin’s comments about victims this AM.”
As a woman & former prosecutor who handled 100s of rape cases,I‘m stunned by Rep Akin’s comments about victims this AM bit.ly/NahiHz
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) August 19, 2012
Earlier in the interview, Akin described his position as one to always “optimize life.”
“Sometimes people talk about life of the mother as a situation,” he said. “One of the foundational things America’s built on is the respect for life, and so I would say you optimize life. So for instance, a woman has a tubal preganncy or something. Well technically by my understanding life begins at conception so you’ve technically had conception, but the child doesn’t have a chance and will soon kill the mother. OK so I would say in those kinds of situations you try to optimize life.”
First elected to the U.S. House in 2000, Akin won the Republican nomination for Senate in a three-way race earlier this month.
Watch the full interview below:
(h/t Talking Points Memo)
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Comments (277)
CBKC
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:46pmJeez, Louise. We just lost what should have been a slam dunk knock out of McCaskill. She’s a moron, but apparently Aiken is a bigger one.
Report Post »MDECKER
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:58pmRepublicans can be their worst enemies.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:00pmAnd everybody else’s worst enemies, too.
Report Post »Crus8r
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:27pmYep, the left is gonna have a field-day with this idiot, and I mean idiot. Statements like this set us back in our argument for “Pro-Life”. Give me a break, really guy? Not much to say, just a real head shaker.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:29pmY was this said ? Implant , GOP voters , look like they have been fooled with this untimely comment.
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:46pmNow I see how this state gave us the Manson clan. Future geologists studying the area south of Ava, Mo. will find a crashed UFO leaking brain sucking rays from it’s damaged reactor.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:08pm@ wango – have u taken a bath & shaved yet ?
Report Post »muffythetuffy
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:10pmTHE LET PLANNED PARENT HOOD PROVE HIM WRONG
They won’t. End abortion now and for ever. Maybe then the crime of rape will be treated more seriously than it is. Little girls who are raped need to have their rapes reported to the law and the Crime of Rape must be treated as a Capital Crime once again. Rape is now treated like treaspass.
Report Post »TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:49pmThese are the types of candidates and politicians that I say may as well be moles.
The answer he was looking for is that there is a life in question. Someone else’s life. Do you play God with it? Do you deny its right, endowed by our Creator? Do you deny not only a Life, but liberty and the pursuit of happiness as well. My position from a founding principle standpoint and a Biblical principle standpoint; NO!
To say “because they rarely get pregnant” is pitiful. Pathetic. He should fix it or drop out.
Report Post »mtsnj
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:57pmWhat? Was this guy taking the same public speaking course as Biden?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 7:08pm@Muffy
“Rape is now treated like treaspass.”
Uh… not at all. Depending on the type of rape (violence, drugs, with a minor, etc), rape carries up to life sentences.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 7:18pmAnd they say the GOP isn’t waging war on women. More the GOP says they are not at war with women and against basic civil rights, the more the truth comes out from the mouth of candidates.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 7:29pmWhat an A$$!
Report Post »Givahoot
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 8:01pmOuch! Sometimes the GOP tent is just too big. Stuff like this is why normal, non liberals, get agitated about conservatives.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 8:09pmWho is this DINGBAT???? “Legitimate rape” there is no such thing.
Report Post »stumpy68
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 8:17pm@Locked
Where do you live around here men rape children
Report Post »and get out if they are arrested at all in 3 – 6 years
and if the child is over 13 even less time is served.
caveman74
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 8:28pmlook everyone its Wasermens long lost brother
Report Post »jzs
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 8:47pmAfter reading the headline, I was going to explain why this kind of remark and others like it account for the fact the Republicans are about 15 percentage points behind Democrats with the female vote. Honestly I never thought it possible that a Republican would make a remark so outrageous, so offensive that Blazers would agree the remark was damaging to the Republican brand. Honestly I didn’t think that was possible.
Women really don’t want old, rich, white guys telling them what rights they have with their own bodies. But your comments, given your ideology, speak more eloquently than I ever could.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 8:53pmFrankly, I’d rather have a man who is opposed to abortion (and it’s true…it is rare where pregnancy results from rape. Rape is a horrible crime, don’t get me wrong. BUT who is better for MO? A man who opposes abortion and is a decent representative or a Senator who (in cahoots with her husband) ripped the people off? DUH. Get off his back.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:17pm@Stumpy
Depends on the type of rape, as said; but it is the truth that rape can carry up to a life sentence by federal law.
Report Post »The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:01pm“Women really don’t want old, rich, white guys telling them what rights they have with their own bodies.”
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
As predictable as the sun rising. If I had a dollar for every time….
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:32pmHonestly, he shoul just dop out. This is rediculous to say true or not. wow. It may hurt other races too. this will be on a loop tomorrow unfortunately..
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:09amwe will see this type of reporting every time a gop candidate makes a stupid statement but we will not hear it when a dem makes an equally stupid statement.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:05amWhy is it that the republicans are against abortion but not when it involves rape? Isnt a rape baby just as human as a regular baby?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 10:05am@MDECKER Yep don’t you hate when the go off script and actually tell us what they really think, believe and how ignorant they are. Remind you of a Governor from Alaska. So what does this say about the people who vote for them.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 3:43pm@Locked, i’ve read that most people convicted of rape will spend a little less than five years in prison… so… life in prison, not really. and as far as violent crime goes, its pretty tops on the despicable meter.
also, everythings not lost. this guy is clearly a ******, but the GOP may be able to make him drop out. and his replacement could stand a decent chance of defeating whatsherface.
Report Post »ocrick
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:56pmAnother Phony Christian GOPinhead who knows Nothing… this idiot sits on the SCIENCE Committee.
Why would Any Self Respecting American Woman vote Repub…?
Report Post »Simonne
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:43pmThis is what you get when you vote for an extremist. The idiot just lost the election.
Report Post »1froglegs
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:43pmLook up Clayton Williams of Texas. His rape comment helped Ann Richards get elected governor, which led to Bush a few years later, and ultimately to Bush becoming the 43rd president, and then Obama 8 years after that. Clayton Williams turned the tide of national elections today when his own stupid rape comment in a governors race 25 years ago played a part in costing him the race.
Report Post »2smart
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:04pmI was here during Ann Richards reign, it wasn’t the roses you imply. She set back Texas tremendously. Her Robin Hood plan for financing schools is amazingly simular to Obama’s redistribution of wealth plan. She was also opposed to the concealed handgun law. The State had enough of her and she was handily beaten by Bush, 53% to 46%.
Report Post »1froglegs
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 7:31pmI never said Ann Richards was a good Governor. I said she only won because of Clayton Williams’ stupid rape comment. If Williams had won the Governors race, Bush would not have been President in 2000 because he never would have been Governor of Texas. That would have changed the whole political alignment because Gore would have likely beat McCain in 2000.
Report Post »MasterJoshua7
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:41pmAre we sure this guy who just effectively commited political suicide wasn’t a liberal from the beginning? God help us.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:48pmWe can be sure. The truly really wildly dumb ones are always conservatives.
Report Post »pissantno.10
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:50pmnaw you prove that wrong every time you post
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:01pmObama “I’ve been to 57 states I think one more to go”
Boxer “Those who died in the San Fransisco earthquake, their lives will never be the same”
Dodd “Only 8 more days and I can start telling the truth again”
Barry “I’m clearly more popular than Reagan. This is my third term, Reagan only lasted two terms”
Gore “A zebra never changes its spots”
Kerry I don‘t know much about Cuba’s health care system. Does the government run it?”
Gore “Who are these guys?” — “That is George Washington and Ben Franklin!!!”
Pelosi, “Unemployment checks are better for the economy than just about any other program”
Pelosi “every month… 500,000,000 people lose their jobs”
Pelosi “We need to pass the bill and make it law so we can find out what’s in it”
Reid “February 60,000 jobs lost, march 70,000 jobs lost… so overall I think we’re doing a pretty good job”
Biden “Am I saying we can spend our way out of debt… yes”
“a 4 letter word jobs J-O-B-S”
Johnson “I’m afraid Guam might tip over and capsize”
Waters “The Liberal will be about socializi… uh uh uh… basically… government taking over your businesses.”
these are just the tip of the iceberg of Liberal stupidity.. and I stuck with only politicians… never mind all the countless stupid Hollywood quotes
yup, the heroes of Liberals are real geniuses… real geniuses… duh errr
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:11pmFREEDOMOVERFEAR . . . shoehorn!
Report Post »lowerclassrepublican
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:17pmThis guy came out of no where! Everyone was talking about the two people he ran against and after the primary he’s name came up the winner. It’s like everyone loved the other two and split the vote and he won by what was left. Kinda reminds me of how Clinton won.
Report Post »Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:45pm@wango
That candidate certainly stepped in it for sure.
You sir, are simply an idiot.
Report Post »kegbuna
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:40amI love how shiroi compares some verbal missteps with Todd Akins’ comments on rape. Does the ideology attract a certain kind of person?
Report Post »FreeReligion.net
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:38pmDumbest quote ever! Why doesn’t anyone vet their guys before the primaries?
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:42pmBecause all you need to do to win a Republican primary is call your opponent a progressive republican and say you love Jesus and you’re going to put up one hell of a fight.
Report Post »FreeReligion.net
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:07pm@moderationisbest. You aren’t really a moderate or you would talk like one. You sound very ideological.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:36pmIf Todd Akin’s father is still alive he should have That Talk with his son asap.
Report Post »JohnLarson
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:35pmMan, Republicans are like ****** experts!!
Report Post »acovenantinblood
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:35pmWhen is someone going to have cajones big enough to turn this argument around? When asked if someone who was raped should get an abortion why is it not brought up that aborion after rape is not the real issue? The real issue is why are we not executing rapists! That sure would make the rape issue a lot smaller in this country when we took them all out!
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:43pmLet me guess – you’re pro life, am I right? Yep.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:05pmCajones are wooden crates with plywood lids used as percussion instruments by South American street musicians. Perhaps you mean cojones.
Report Post »kowdung
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:11pmLike!!
Report Post »kevinj319
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:27pmBecause then a rapist would have a very big incentive to kill his victim. If the punishment for rape is the same as murder, then the rapist is no worse off to just eliminate the witness.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:30pm“The real issue is why are we not executing rapists! That sure would make the rape issue a lot smaller in this country when we took them all out!”
Extremely unlikely. Do you think rapists would stop and ponder their actions if their punishment was a quick death as opposed to several years getting pounded by other dudes in federal prison?
Report Post »antitheist
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:53pmIf you’re saying that a more severe punishment is going to deter rapists, it simply is not. Men who rape women and children are looked down upon by other prisoners, and are constant victims of rape themselves or are targets for assaults. If a miserable life in prison filled with rape and violence isn’t going to stop them from raping, then how is the threat of capital punishment?
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:57pm“The real issue is why are we not executing rapists!”
Report Post »That issue was settled in 1977: Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584
Al J Zira
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:04pmWango: Let me guess, you’re pro-death. Don’t answer, I know I’m right.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 12:45amAntitheist – Then why do people on death row try to get their death penalty sentences overturned?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:34pmHey republicans, until the supreme court overturns roe v wade……you have zero control over the issue, so stay away…..and by the way there’s a lot of republican voters who think the rape incest issue is a reason to abort…I think this guy just lost, he might as well said… ” if it’s gonna happen just lay back and enjoy it………idiot.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:34pm“until the supreme court overturns roe v wade……you have zero control over the issue”
This is blatantly false. States like Mississippi have effectively outlawed abortion by making it nigh-impossible to meet the criteria set by their regulations.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:33pmWhat an idiot.
He deserves to lose.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:48pmHe will. We’ll see to that.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:10pmYep!!!!!!!!
Report Post »donnyho
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:33pm“Legitimate rape”…as opposed to illegitimate rape? I always thought rape was rape, without qualifiers. Silly me.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:37pmI thought about that for a few minutes. The only thing I can think of is he was referring to woman who dress or act provocatively. What a jerk.
Report Post »PoliticalTs.com
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:40pmSome Liberals have said, all sex is rape for the woman, so I guess we do need qualifiers.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:45pmSome conservatives have said, “Diaper me, madam, I’ve been a bad boy.” What’s your point?
Report Post »JohnHW
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:13pmJust saying—there has been women who wanted an abortion who filed rape charges. One man was in jail, I believe, for 15 years before the woman confessed that she had lied – then a couple more because the judge would not believe her before the Governor pardoned him.
But, I agree, that his chances of getting elected went to almost zero unless he can come up with the study that says this. Then he just might have a chance – provided the media will publish it.
Report Post »wianno94
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:15pmdonnyho
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:33pm
“Legitimate rape”…as opposed to illegitimate rape? I always thought rape was rape, without qualifiers. Silly me.
I would take it to mean that there are many accusations of rape that turn out not to be actual rape.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:18pm““Legitimate rape”…as opposed to illegitimate rape?”
As the topic of discussion was abortion, and he said that he’s against abortion and all cases, “legitimate” likely would refer to women who would lie and claim they were raped to have an abortion in states where abortion would only be allowed in cases of rape.
The guy’s still an idiot, of course.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:24pmPoliticalTs.com, after reading a few of the comments here, that very thought popped into my head too.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:14pmFREEDOMOVERFEAR . . Shoehorn! (check out John HW)
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 2:46amNo, what he means is the only true rape is ‘forcible rape’ by a stranger. date rape, spousal rape, drugged rape, etc would not be counted. This is outlined in the Republican “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” bill which Akin co-sponsored with a certain Paul Ryan.
Their belief is that due to stress during forcible rape the fertilised egg cannot become implanted on the uterus wall therefore you cannot get pregnant. If you do get pregnant then it wasn‘t ’real’ rape.
I’m sure Paul Ryan is going to get a lot of heat for it this week.
Report Post »The Giver
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 3:23pmHe obviously was referring to a real rape vs having consensual sex and accusing the guy of rape. Anyway you look at it though, he has to go. Real rape decreases chance of pregnancy? If there is any science to back this comment ( he said doctors told him this is so) , I’ll find it. The GOP has to replace him. Maybe he can run in the future… but this election is just too important.
Report Post »taggert
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:09pmOr . . . was he saying legitimate – as in, WAS IT REALLY RAPE rather than – I would feel better about having this abortion if I convince myself that it wasn’t consentual sex? I’m not sure what he meant. But for all that started SCREECHING – he has offered clarification. (”I made that statement in error. Let me be clear: rape is never legitimate; it‘s an evil act that’s committed by violent predators. “I used the wrong words in the wrong way. What I said was ill-conceived and it was wrong, and for that, I apologize.”)
I‘ve checked Akin’s record and he is very conservative. I have no problem with that – you know where he stands and how he’s going to vote and the November election will decide his fate in Missouri. What I do have a problem with, is how quickly THE PARTY is willing to throw him under a bus for the sake of “winning”. PARTY members from all over the country are weighing in and telling him to step down. Makes me think that the PARTY expected a different candidate to win the primary?
Report Post »Kona HI
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:31pmControl of the Senate could come down to one seat and this idiot just threw it away.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:44pmYes, he did indeed.
Report Post »The Giver
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:08pmIt’s not over yet. He has till 5pm tomorrow to pull out of the race. He’s trained as an engineer…. why did he make stuff up? What report said women wouldn’t get pregnant if raped. He was trying to defend the unborn. Trying to say that abortions due to rape are rare since raped women seldom get pregnant. Where did he get this info? We have to win in 2012. God, please guide us and heal our land.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:31pmHow did they nominate this nut … is it too late to replace him with Sarah Steelman?
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:43pmNutcases are the new mainstream in the Republican party.
Report Post »chalkdust
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:58pmHe certainly took a side unlike those who say they are MODERATES which is a joke played on themselves. Those who sit on the fence wind up with a post up their @$$.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:04pm@CHALKDUST
The people who think EVERYTHING is black and white don’t actually think about the issue.
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:30pmThis guy put his foot in his mouth so far, he actually now steps on his tonsils when he walks.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:30pmThis is proof that if some one talks long enough he’ll say something stupid. I reckon we’re all guilty of it.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:50pmYes, conservative minimizing rears its ugly head once again . . . “Nobody’s perfect. We all make mistakes. He was taken out of context.”
Too little too late (and way too disingenuous.)
Report Post »estone052060
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:56pm…and Liberal leftists never minimize, do they, Wango?…………
Report Post »The Iron Nurse
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:26pmWow. Just wow. As a licensed nurse, I can’t tell you how incredibly STUPID this is. Way to go, jackass. You probably just cost yourself the elecetion. Not only that, you sound as stupid as a Liberal.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:55pmOh, now, don’t go all nonsense on us, Nursie. he sounds as stupid as a conservative. Why? Because he’s a conservative. A Tea Party conservative. A Sarah Palin favorite. And this is what he believes – that there is legitimate and non-legimitate rape ANd that the female body, being so attuned to the invasion by infidels, can shut down the procreation process out of, what, spite? Divine intervention?
Nope, sorry, he‘s all yours and he ain’t that different than most.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:26pmThe right continues to go further off the deep end.
Report Post »doubletap
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:38pmThis isn’t about right or left, it’s about stupid. Both sides have their fair share of idiots.
Report Post »estone052060
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:58pm….and apparently, so does the middle.
Report Post »Godzgrl247
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:26pmCan someone tell this whacko that he is WRONG!!! I have worked in OB/GYN and I can assure you that women do get pregnant from rape. And who does this man think he is to talk about legitimate rape? Are we going to turn back the clocks now and say that, “she must’ve asked for it,,,because, duh! She got pregnant?” What a jerk!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:36pmI am hoping (just hoping here) that he was talking about girls who claim they were raped .. after they are pregnant … but someone running for office should be smart enough not to say what he did no matter how they mean it.
Report Post »PoliticalTs.com
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:39pmUh, did you not read the whole article. It says 5% percent of rape victims get pregnant. Using that percentage, the word “rarely” certainly applies. Just because the child comes from rape, does not mean it is evil, and it is ok to kill it. Why don’t you take a poll of rape babies and ask them if they would have rather been aborted. I wonder what the percentage on that one would be? Better yet, ask the mothers when the child is 18, the same qeustion, again, i am sure the persentage would be staggeringly low. When will we stop killing the future Einstiens, and Shakespeares, because of “women’s rights”?
Report Post »SCHEXbp
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:43pmAs I understand, EVEN if conditions are PERFECT at the time of sexual intercourse (ovulation, etc.), the chance of a pregnancy occurring is only 20%. Why do you think some people have to try so hard over & over to conceive? That being said, if this guy is so inarticulate (about a subject that does NOT need expanding on because it is full of such land mines), he shouldn’t be a politician at a high level.
As a aside, read “Sperm Wars” & find out that the human body DOES do things that seem prescient. For example, if a man’s wife is going out of town for a week, the man’s sperm content can be double or triple normal for their last intercourse before she leaves, because his body is reacting to the chance that, if she encounters another man to have sex with, the husband’s sperm will be there in abundance to “fight off” the intruder’s sperm.
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:52pmCATB . . no matter what he meant, eh? You going with that one? Good luck.
Report Post »PutMoreOnMyPlate
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:54pmSome people can’t face or see the reality and it saddens me. But the point in the matter as I see it is that children are not punishments. And I stand behind that belief. I don’t care how the man says it, he said everything I put into the letter (minus the added bonus about the body suppressing the pregnancies though I put God did that for me) to Obama when I was in denial about the DHS mandate. <3
Report Post »PutMoreOnMyPlate
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:24pmI could get behind this guy :)
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:27pmAre you going to be roomies in jail?
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:35pmThis is an issue that deserves a serious national discussion. But his reasoning, that women that are victims of ‘legitmate rape’ rarely get pregnant is dumb a$$ stupid. Moreover, his argument has nothing to do with whether rape is a valid reason for an abortion or not. He lost his election bid right then and there. BTW, what makes a rape ‘legitmate’ or not?
Report Post »PutMoreOnMyPlate
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:37pm“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
I know from experience :) Call it what you will but I called it contraception through prayer. Test came up negative two weeks late. Scariest/happiest moment in my life. No pills, no abortificants.
Report Post »PutMoreOnMyPlate
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:43pmThe sad thing is I‘m told that wasn’t a “legitimate rape” because I didn’t put the guy away. So if that suppressed the pregnancy by being a “illegitimate rape” then I guess the body works wonders.
TammyChicago
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:23pmWell, we can kiss that senate seat goodbye. To think, that silly Sarah Palin stumped for this guy in the primary………… oh, wait. Never mind………….
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:46pmYes, kiss away.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:23pmSarah Palin stumped for Sarah Steelman and might get her wish if enough people jump up and down and demand the Republicans get rid of this dope.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:33pmTammy TROLL, why are you here wasting time? Do you get paid minimum wage to share your non-opinions.
Report Post »MrSunshine
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:23pmSorry Missouri, looks like you’ll have McGaskill back. C’mon repubs, we certainly don’t need our own Biden moments!
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:38pmYep, Mr. Sun. You can bet no one is going to let him use a similar Biden defense, “Oh, that’s just TODD. He ALWAYS says things like that.”
Report Post »JohnLarson
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:22pmJust give up on this abortion issue… the Supreme Court ruled and the Constitution says they have the final say.
I thought you all loved the Constitution?
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:37pmYes and in the constitution it is about LIFE now when you talk about abortion all it is about is death. Give the child up for adoption there are thousands of couples out there who have tried and tried to get pregnant and want children. Don’t punish the child for what the man did.
Report Post »doubletap
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:21pmMissouri? What were you thinking!
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:47pmThey weren’t. They were whining. This guy is what happens when children vote.
Report Post »Conservative Hippy
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:55pmActually, Obama is what happens when children vote…
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:20pmWhy do I get the feeling that this guy will be the cause of some extreme “buyers remorse”?
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:19pmCongratulations, Senator McCaskill, on your re-election. LOL! Bwahhahahahahaahhahhahhahhahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaaaaaaa
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:49pm@ wango , ur so happy with this dumby , Y r ur dumby’s & I mean a whole lot of dumbys, r ur heroes ?
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:17pmExactly!
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