In a 2008 Speech, Todd Akin Said Doctors Give Abortions to Women ‘Who Are Not Actually Pregnant’
This man is on the US House of Representatives Committee for Science, Space, and Technology.
Hmm. I wonder who’s got the right idea here.
The views expressed were offensive. Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn’t make sense to the American people and certainly doesn’t make sense to me. So what I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.
President Obama in a surprise press conference today, speaking about Todd Akin’s deplorable “legitimate rape” statement.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of how hard I’m voting Obama.
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FUCK YEAH
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Last year, Todd Akin and Paul Ryan partnered to redefine rape. →
GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin, the same man who claimed “legitimate rape” doesn’t often lead to pregnancy.
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Last year, Akin joined with GOP vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as two of the original co-sponsors of the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” a bill which, among other things, introduced the country to the bizarre term “forcible rape.”
Federal law prevents federal Medicaid funds and similar programs from paying for abortions. Yet the law also contains anexception for women who are raped. The bill Akin and Ryan cosponsored would have narrowed this exception, providing that only pregnancies arising from “forcible rape” may be terminated. Because the primary target of Akin and Ryan’s effort are Medicaid recipients — patients who are unlikely to be able to afford an abortion absent Medicaid funding — the likely impact of this bill would have beenforcing many rape survivors to carry their rapist’s baby to term. Michelle Goldberg explains who Akin and Ryan would likely target:
Under H.R. 3, only victims of “forcible rape” would qualify for federally funded abortions. Victims of statutory rape—say, a 13-year-old girl impregnated by a 30-year-old man—would be on their own. So would victims of incest if they’re over 18. And while “forcible rape” isn’t defined in the criminal code, the addition of the adjective seems certain to exclude acts of rape that don’t involve overt violence—say, cases where a woman is drugged or has a limited mental capacity. “It’s basically putting more restrictions on what was defined historically as rape,” says Keenan.
Let’s not forget about this, okay?
- Todd Akin: If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
- People with functioning brains: Female bodies do have a way of "shutting that whole thing down." You just keep trying to make it illegal, dipshit.
Rep. W Todd Akin
@RepToddAkin
You can tweet this willfully ignorant dumbass and tell him what you think of his “scientific” views on the biology of “female bodies” and “legitimate rape.”
Missouri Senate candidate: “Legitmiate” rape victims can’t get pregnant
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Missouri Rep. Todd Akin said in a Sunday interview. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Akin, who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill in November, then claimed that even if these biological mechanisms don’t work, the perpetrator, not the child, should be punished. Kind of tough to defend that.
We don’t even. Akin, you may remember, was a co-sponsor of the House GOP’s plan to redefine rape.
My mind can’t even begin to wrap itself around this comment. This douche nugget is currently 8 points ahead of Senator McCaskill in the polls. That means he’s well on his way to representing the state of Missouri in the U.S. Senate, unless something changes.
Here, if you can handle it, you can actually listen him say this ignorant, completely stupid comment.
Honestly, I can’t even think of the right words for this kind of arrogant, willful stupidity.
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.
Republican Senate Nominee: Victims Of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Don’t Get Pregnant
What is “Legitimate Rape” vs “Illegitimate Rape”?
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I really just can’t with these ignorant, misogynistic turdsacks anymore.
