Republican Senate Candidate: Female body can shut down a pregnancy in case of rape

[TheHuckster]

Interesting. Possible setup to make Romney look good?

Possibly, but that's pure speculation.

[Greenday]

Possibly, but that's pure speculation.

Just entertaining the thought. Proving it would be impossible.

[Zod]

So if a guy rapes a woman and she gets pregrant from it : would he now be able to use this as a legal defence ( " it wasn't really rape because she got pregrant " ) ?

The next step, of course, is to force the woman to marry their rapist as it's sinful to be an unwed mother.

[Rapscallion]

Just entertaining the thought. Proving it would be impossible.

Bit far fetched as ideas go. "If you make yourself unemployable and unelectable for me, I'll look really bad if I get in and take you on in a cushy role" sort of thing?

Can't see it, somehow.

Rapscallion

[Greenday]

Bit far fetched as ideas go. "If you make yourself unemployable and unelectable for me, I'll look really bad if I get in and take you on in a cushy role" sort of thing?

Can't see it, somehow.

Rapscallion

Naw, he might never get re-elected as a super important person like in the Senate, but he could easily land some office job paying him $150k a year plus full benefits.

[Nekojin]

"In reviewing my off-the-cuff remarks, it's clear that I misspoke in this interview and it does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped and abused every year..."

Every time I hear someone speak about how they have "deep empathy" for someone in a bad situation, it's like nails on the chalkboard to me. Just speaking the words means nothing - it's hollow, false on its face. If you truly had empathy, you wouldn't be blaming the victims, you monstrous douchebag!

[Crazedclerkthe2nd]

The American Congress of Gynecologists and Obstetricians has issued a statement on this:

http://www.acog.org/About_ACOG/News_..._and_Pregnancy

Also, it appears the GOP has pretty much completely abandoned Akin as far as his campaign goes:


http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...-karl-rove.php

[HYHYBT]

"I misspoke" doesn't even make sense. If you want to back off a claim like that, the thing to do is to say "Since making that comment, I've learned that the female body doesn't work that way after all. I apologize for spreading erroneous information."

[daleduke17]

Why did this man have to be from my state? Why?

Hey, you only have him from your state. I come from the same state Obama rose to power in. :/

[ExRetailDrone]

I like The Onion's take on how this douchebag "misspoke".

http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-m...-as-dog,29256/

And here is an article about the National Republican Senatorial Committee pulling funding from this assnugget. It's a blog post, so may or may not be completely factual.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...d-source-says/

[ThePhoneGoddess]

A number of extreme far right people hold views similar to this, they're just smart enough not to say them to reporters.

The reason he worded the comment the way he did is because last year he and Paul Ryan cosponsored legislation that would have narrowed the definition of rape to 'forcible rape' and other kinds of rape. The legislation was dropped after outcry on both sides of the aisle.

These kinds of things are being done because anti-abortion activists are afraid that if abortion is outlawed except for the commonly cited "rape, incest, or danger to the mother" scenarios, then women who want abortions for other reasons will start claiming they were raped in order to get one. So they want to basically force women to somehow 'prove' they were raped.

The idea that raped women don't get pregnant dates back to the Middle Ages. It was commonly believed that women had to have an orgasm to conceive, and so if a woman conceived, then she couldn't possibly have been raped, since she clearly enjoyed it enough to have an orgasm. This was actually codified in English law of the time.

[lordlundar]

Also, it appears the GOP has pretty much completely abandoned Akin as far as his campaign goes:


http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/20...-karl-rove.php

Yeah I call BS on this. Oh sure they won't "officially" support him, but they'll put donations through other channels to keep him going. Then post election all sins will be forgotten.

And for anyone looking to dispute that, remember that this is the party that wants to covertly bring back Jim Crow laws to get back in power.

[TheHuckster]

Yeah I call BS on this. Oh sure they won't "officially" support him, but they'll put donations through other channels to keep him going. Then post election all sins will be forgotten.

And for anyone looking to dispute that, remember that this is the party that wants to covertly bring back Jim Crow laws to get back in power.

We'll see by 5pm tonight if you're right on your first statement. The GOP seems quite adamant about getting him off the ballot and if he drops out of the race you can throw as much money as you can onto his abandoned campaign and he won't win.


And can you give me a reputable source for that last statement, please?

[Andara Bledin]

Regarding the "bring back Jim Crow laws" comment, that's most of what the brouhaha over requiring voter IDs at the polls is about. The well-to-do will nearly always have everything they need to have ID handy and it's trivial to them to get it taken care of. The less well off, not so much. It costs money to prove who you are. It costs money to get an ID. It costs money to get and maintain a driver's license.

Hell, I'm actually fairly comfortable, and I still don't have a birth certificate (born at home, have an afadavit of birth) and as I have no need to leave the country and thus need to have a passport, it's not worth it to me to go through the effort to get one due to the time and money required ($25 for the notary, and another $45 for the application). For someone barely scraping by, that's not even a consideration.

And, since the nation's poor is more heavily skewed non-white, it's a back door to oppressing minorities. The poor whites caught in the net are considered expendable because poor people don't donate thousands of dollars to campaigns.

^-.-^

[Greenday]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/r...171810570.html

Apparently, since he's never heard of someone getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest, it's not possible either.