Todd Akin: "Victims Of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Don’t Get Pregnant"
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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.”
Akin said that even in the worst-case scenario — when the supposed natural protections against unwanted pregnancy fail — abortion should still not be a legal option for the rape victim.
“Let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work, or something,” Akin said. “I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”
Video, clipped by the Democratic tracking outfit American Bridge (the full interview is below):
Sexist asshole. The Republican Party disgusts me, how dare they tell women what or what they can't do with their bodies? No woman is free until she has the right to decide when she will be a mother.
The government is far too busy paying to keep thousands of people in jail for minor drug possession and blowing up brown people in the middle east to give a **** about dumb bitches and their "rape!"
wat did day do
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