Legitimate Rape?

[KoachKletus]

Wonder if this rwnj would consider rape "legit" if it happened to his own daughter, grand daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, etc.?

Rep. Todd Akin: No pregnancy from 'legitimate rape' - latimes.com

 

[rmsmith]

Hmmm I never knew a womans reproductive system could just turn off like that.

Something tells me he didn't pass biology

 

[KoachKletus]

Hmmm I never knew a womans reproductive system could just turn off like that.

Something tells me he didn't pass biology

Teapublican. It's their strain of thought.

 

[Velo Vol]

The answer by Akin -- who sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology -- led to instant condemnation from his opponent and women's advocates.

Obviously the bar is very low there.

 

[utvolpj]

Teapublican. It's their strain of thought.

stupidity at this level has no party affiliation

 

[Velo Vol]

If he loses this election maybe he can go write a science textbook for the Texas State Board of Education.

 

[Tux]

Wonder if this rwnj would consider rape "legit" if it happened to his own daughter, grand daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, etc.?

Rep. Todd Akin: No pregnancy from 'legitimate rape' - latimes.com

Show me a man who got pregnant from being forcibly raped. Men are someone/somebody.

 

[rmsmith]

stupidity at this level has no party affiliation

IQ number has parenthesis around it?

 

[mreed90]

I don't even know what to say about this so I'm just going to leave this here.

 

[rmsmith]

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

Missouri Republican: 'Legitimate rape' rarely causes pregnancy - First Read

Nice try, no dice.

 

[YorkVol]

I"m still trying to understand what he was trying to say. Was he saying that if a woman is raped against her will, since her body will reject the sperm and prevent pregnancy, then there is no need to have abortion in the case of rape? So, therefore, the women who get pregnant after being raped really wanted the raping and should not be able to have an abortion? Am I understanding this correctly?

 

[n_huffhines]

What he says sounds stupid, but before I cast a stone, does anybody have a link to science that contradicts him?

 

[Gramps]

I"m still trying to understand what he was trying to say. Was he saying that if a woman is raped against her will, since her body will reject the sperm and prevent pregnancy, then there is no need to have abortion in the case of rape? So, therefore, the women who get pregnant after being raped really wanted the raping and should not be able to have an abortion? Am I understanding this correctly?

That is what I understand he is saying.

 

[dreVol]

according to whoopi Goldberg there is a difference between "rape" and "rape-rape"

 

[orangestorm]

 

[hndog609]

I can't make any sense of the "anatomical anti-fertilization rape response" or whatever you'd call it he seems to be describing.

I can (playing Devil's Advocate) actually make some wiggle room in the "legitimate" rape thing though if I am getting his context right. Statutory rape can involve consenting parties so, even though it would qualify as a "rape" legally speaking the consensual part would negate whatever pregnancy rejection voodoo he's trying to express. This would also include anyone who got pregnant from consensual sex but had to cover it up (UPS guy's kid, etc) and went with rape. If by "legitimate" he meant "expressly against the female's will" as opposed to examples like I cited above that makes more sense.

Still a bewildering thing to claim.

 

[YorkVol]

What he says sounds stupid, but before I cast a stone, does anybody have a link to science that contradicts him?

That would be some tough science to get, how do you prove a negative?

 

[PKT_VOL]

I"m still trying to understand what he was trying to say. Was he saying that if a woman is raped against her will, since her body will reject the sperm and prevent pregnancy, then there is no need to have abortion in the case of rape? So, therefore, the women who get pregnant after being raped really wanted the raping and should not be able to have an abortion? Am I understanding this correctly?

What he says sounds stupid, but before I cast a stone, does anybody have a link to science that contradicts him?

He is basically talking about the body's response to a traumatic event. It is possible, in "legitimate" rape cases, that the traumatic experience will cause the body not to function properly. This can cause an egg to not be fertilized properly or a miscarriage of a fertilized egg. Of course, such an event is possible but not the norm. A woman can easily get pregnant from a "legitimate" rape and carry until birth with no complications.

The really interesting this is the miscarriage angle. People who share the same mentality with him are for personhood rights for a fertilized egg, hence Paul Ryan.

 

[PKT_VOL]

Ruh Roh.

Rep. Akin resists mounting calls to withdraw from Senate race after 'rape' comment | Fox News

Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin resisted calls to withdraw from the race Monday over his controversial comments on rape, despite mounting pressure from GOP leaders who roundly condemned his remarks and threatened to cut off funding.

A source within the National Republican Senatorial Committee told Fox News that Sen. John Cornyn, head of the Senate GOP campaign arm, already has told Akin that if he stays in the race, the $5 million set aside for the Missouri race will be withdrawn. Cornyn, according to the source, told him the party is concerned his presence in the race could imperil Republicans' chances of winning the Senate majority.

 

[n_huffhines]

That would be some tough science to get, how do you prove a negative?

You could show that women who have unprotected sex and get pregnant 3% of the time, while women who are raped get pregnant .00005% of the time (made-up numbers).

It doesn't validate any of his policy nonsense, but his assumption that they rarely get pregnant could possibly be true.

 

[YorkVol]

You could show that women who have unprotected sex and get pregnant 3% of the time, while women who are raped get pregnant .00005% of the time (made-up numbers).

It doesn't validate any of his policy nonsense, but his assumption that they rarely get pregnant could possibly be true.

Based on the odds against conception I would say everybody rarely gets pregnant. I guess you could look for a statistical difference but you would have to account for a lot of factors beyond the trauma of the rape to conclude the woman's body went into reject mode.

 

[Velo Vol]

You could show that women who have unprotected sex and get pregnant 3% of the time, while women who are raped get pregnant .00005% of the time (made-up numbers).

On Twitter I saw a 5% figure from a study being tossed around. Didn't bother to read it.

 

[orangestorm]

It would be very hard if not impossible to come up with a factual number; some rapes are not even reported (this number varies depending on what you read) also a number of women who are raped, get the Plan-B afterword.

 

[Gramps]

Tea Party nominated another quacko now the Tea Party Express is asking Todd Akin to drop out of race.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

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