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Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin 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.”
-- News-LJ
See what happens when you start turning away pieces of knowledge like evolution and you believe ideas like early-earth creationism, and you start thinking that knowledge is not something that you have to learn and work on but something you can just pull out of your ass at a moment's need: the dumbness grows and grows. It's running at epidemic rates in Republican circles. The Center for Disease Control should step in. Knowledge and reality are not faith-based.
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin 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.”
-- News-LJ
See what happens when you start turning away pieces of knowledge like evolution and you believe ideas like early-earth creationism, and you start thinking that knowledge is not something that you have to learn and work on but something you can just pull out of your ass at a moment's need: the dumbness grows and grows. It's running at epidemic rates in Republican circles. The Center for Disease Control should step in. Knowledge and reality are not faith-based.
