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Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 7:26 am
by heyzeus
Because we have to maintain the purity of the abortion thread.
Re: Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 7:38 am
by slide_into_first
Does he mean "forced rape" or "provoked rape" (the latter implying it was the woman's fault)?
Are there more cretins running for office today or is it just more apparent?
Re: Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 7:45 am
by cpebbles
What he meant was that if a woman gets pregnant obviously her body was willing and thus the Pregnancy Defense System was not deployed, ergo she is just lying after the fact in order to get an abortion.
Re: Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 7:55 am
by heyzeus
The most puzzling and intriguing aspect of Akin's comments is the Pregnancy Defense System, as cpebbles has happily dubbed it. Akin suggests that women have some sort of innate internal mechanism to control whether or not to allow pregnancy. And here, I'd never learned about that in health class, or from my wife. Ladies have so many secrets!
Re: Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 7:58 am
by slide_into_first
By extension, if a nation allows its political system to be corrupted by greed and archaic beliefs, it must be the will of the People.
Re: Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 8:09 am
by IMADreamer
Now let's all rise for the singing of "God Bless America"
Re: Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 9:00 am
by longhornbaseball
heyzeus wrote:The most puzzling and intriguing aspect of Akin's comments is the Pregnancy Defense System, as cpebbles has happily dubbed it. Akin suggests that women have some sort of innate internal mechanism to control whether or not to allow pregnancy. And here, I'd never learned about that in health class, or from my wife. Ladies have so many secrets!
"Doctors" told him about the PDS. Surely you aren't going to argue with "doctors."
Re: Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 9:42 am
by heyzeus
Once upon a time a wealthy oil man named Clayton Williams was the odds-on favorite to get elected governor of Texas. Until he gave a rather unfortunate one-liner within earshot of a reporter. He said of rape, "If it's inevitable, she may as well relax and enjoy it." Even back in 1990, that didn't go over so well. He lost the election to Ann Richards, the last good Governor the state of Texas has ever had, and may ever have.
Congrats to Todd Akin on joining the elite class of Claytie Williams.
Re: Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 10:06 am
by wart57
What a [expletive] idiot.
Re: Legitimate Rape
Posted: August 20 12, 10:30 am
by BW23
Which is why Claire campaigned for Akin. She knew the idiot she'd get to face if she won. Ugh