Republicans on Abortion and Legitimate Rape

[monk222]

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.

Comments

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Mr. Akin has actually been catching a lot of heat, and from Republicans.



The key word is 'politely'.

(PolitiCartoons (http://politicartoons.livejournal.com/3221405.html))

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Republican U.S. Congressman Todd Akin is quitting his senate race, according to multiple GOP politicos, including CNN’s Erick Erickson, and Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney’s former foreign policy spokesperson.

-- News-LJ (http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9940872.html)

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Not true.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

It's not an actual quote, but should be.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]